On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:33 -0700, Chris Wright <[email protected]> said:
>
> The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
> devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
> block device driver.
First, I think this belongs in drivers/block (and the network driver
belongs in drivers/net). If we're going to bring xen to the party,
lets not leave it hiding out in a corner.
> +static void connect(struct blkfront_info *);
> +static void blkfront_closing(struct xenbus_device *);
> +static int blkfront_remove(struct xenbus_device *);
> +static int talk_to_backend(struct xenbus_device *, struct blkfront_info *);
> +static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *, struct blkfront_info *);
> +
> +static void kick_pending_request_queues(struct blkfront_info *);
> +
> +static irqreturn_t blkif_int(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *ptregs);
> +static void blkif_restart_queue(void *arg);
> +static void blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *);
> +static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *);
> +static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *, int);
I'm pretty sure you can rearrange the code to get rid of the forward
references.
> +/**
> + * We are reconnecting to the backend, due to a suspend/resume, or a backend
> + * driver restart. We tear down our blkif structure and recreate it, but
> + * leave the device-layer structures intact so that this is transparent to the
> + * rest of the kernel.
> + */
> +static int blkfront_resume(struct xenbus_device *dev)
> +{
> + struct blkfront_info *info = dev->dev.driver_data;
> + int err;
> +
> + DPRINTK("blkfront_resume: %s\n", dev->nodename);
> +
> + blkif_free(info, 1);
> +
> + err = talk_to_backend(dev, info);
> + if (!err)
> + blkif_recover(info);
> +
> + return err;
> +}
Should blkfront_resume grab blkif_io_lock?
> + switch (backend_state) {
> + case XenbusStateUnknown:
> + case XenbusStateInitialising:
> + case XenbusStateInitWait:
> + case XenbusStateInitialised:
> + case XenbusStateClosed:
This actually should get fixed elsewhere, but SillyCaps???
> +static inline int GET_ID_FROM_FREELIST(
> + struct blkfront_info *info)
> +{
> + unsigned long free = info->shadow_free;
> + BUG_ON(free > BLK_RING_SIZE);
> + info->shadow_free = info->shadow[free].req.id;
> + info->shadow[free].req.id = 0x0fffffee; /* debug */
> + return free;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void ADD_ID_TO_FREELIST(
> + struct blkfront_info *info, unsigned long id)
> +{
> + info->shadow[id].req.id = info->shadow_free;
> + info->shadow[id].request = 0;
> + info->shadow_free = id;
> +}
A real nit..but why are these routines SHOUTING?
> +int blkif_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
> +{
> + struct blkfront_info *info = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
> + info->users--;
> + if (info->users == 0) {
Hrm...this strikes me as racey. Don't you need at least a memory
barrier here to handle SMP?
> +static struct xlbd_major_info xvd_major_info = {
> + .major = 201,
> + .type = &xvd_type_info
> +};
I've forgotten what the current policy is around new major numbers.
Dave B
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