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authorK. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>2010-03-11 21:42:26 (GMT)
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 16:31:27 (GMT)
commit1fa73be6be65028a7543bba8f14474b42e064a1b (patch)
tree1bd0e5a44c99231afefe53e447bddc4b73d091cb /drivers/block
parent5d7ed20e822ef82117a4d9928b030fa0247b789d (diff)
downloadlinux-1fa73be6be65028a7543bba8f14474b42e064a1b.tar.xz
xen/front: Propagate changed size of VBDs
Support dynamic resizing of virtual block devices. This patch supports both file backed block devices as well as physical devices that can be dynamically resized on the host side. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 60006b7..f47b096 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -930,9 +930,24 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
unsigned int binfo;
int err;
- if ((info->connected == BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED) ||
- (info->connected == BLKIF_STATE_SUSPENDED) )
+ switch (info->connected) {
+ case BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED:
+ /*
+ * Potentially, the back-end may be signalling
+ * a capacity change; update the capacity.
+ */
+ err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
+ "sectors", "%Lu", &sectors);
+ if (XENBUS_EXIST_ERR(err))
+ return;
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Setting capacity to %Lu\n",
+ sectors);
+ set_capacity(info->gd, sectors);
+
+ /* fall through */
+ case BLKIF_STATE_SUSPENDED:
return;
+ }
dev_dbg(&info->xbdev->dev, "%s:%s.\n",
__func__, info->xbdev->otherend);