linux/block
Stefan Weinhuber 46e8894786 s390/partitions: make partition detection independent from DASD ioctls
In some usage scenarios it is desireable to work with disk images or
virtualized DASD devices. One problem that prevents such applications
is the partition detection in ibm.c. Currently it works only for
devices that support the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl, in other words, it only
works for devices that belong to the DASD device driver.

The information gained from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl is only for a small
set of legacy cases abolutely necessary. All current VOL1, LNX1 and
CMS1 type of disk labels can be interpreted correctly without this
information, as long as the generic HDIO_GETGEO ioctl works and
provides a correct disk geometry.

This patch makes the ibm.c partition detection as independent as
possible from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl. Only the following two cases are
still restricted to real DASDs:
- An FBA DASD, or LDL formatted ECKD DASD without any disk label.
- An old style LNX1 label (without large volume support) on a disk
  with inconsistent device geometry.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-09-26 15:45:05 +02:00
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partitions s390/partitions: make partition detection independent from DASD ioctls 2012-09-26 15:45:05 +02:00
Kconfig move fs/partitions to block/ 2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile separate partition format handling from generic code 2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-cgroup.h blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-core.c block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands 2012-08-30 16:26:25 -07:00
blk-exec.c [SCSI] block: Fix blk_execute_rq_nowait() dead queue handling 2012-07-20 08:58:39 +01:00
blk-flush.c blk-flush: move the queue kick into 2011-10-24 16:24:31 +02:00
blk-integrity.c block: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros 2011-10-31 19:31:12 -04:00
blk-ioc.c block: uninitialized ioc->nr_tasks triggers WARN_ON 2012-08-01 12:17:27 +02:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: split discard into aligned requests 2012-08-02 09:48:50 +02:00
blk-map.c block: re-use existing 'reading' variable instead of checking direction again 2011-12-21 15:27:24 +01:00
blk-merge.c block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper 2012-08-02 23:42:04 +02:00
blk-settings.c block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers 2012-08-01 10:44:28 +02:00
blk-softirq.c sched, block: Unify cache detection 2012-01-27 13:28:48 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-tag.c block: fix blk_queue_end_tag() 2011-12-29 09:16:28 +01:00
blk-throttle.c block: allocate io_context upfront 2012-06-25 11:53:50 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue() 2012-06-15 08:46:23 +02:00
blk.h block: remove dead func declaration 2012-08-01 12:25:54 +02:00
bsg-lib.c block: drop custom queue draining used by scsi_transport_{iscsi|fc} 2012-06-25 11:53:48 +02:00
bsg.c bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning 2012-02-08 20:02:03 +01:00
cfq-iosched.c block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED 2012-06-04 10:02:29 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl 2012-01-11 16:29:31 +01:00
deadline-iosched.c elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
elevator.c blkcg: implement per-queue policy activation 2012-04-20 10:06:06 +02:00
genhd.c block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start() 2012-08-03 10:42:00 +02:00
ioctl.c blk: add an upper sanity check on partition adding 2012-09-18 11:56:29 +02:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
partition-generic.c block: add partition resize function to blkpg ioctl 2012-08-01 12:24:18 +02:00
scsi_ioctl.c scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition 2012-06-15 12:52:46 +02:00