virtio_blk: check for hardsector size from host
Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause
trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size
(like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a dasd).
Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector
size than 512 byte.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
index 6a66c7f..c1aef85 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX 2 /* Indicates maximum # of segments */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY 4 /* Legacy geometry available */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO 5 /* Disk is read-only */
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE 6 /* Block size of disk is available*/
struct virtio_blk_config
{
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@
__u8 heads;
__u8 sectors;
} geometry;
+ /* block size of device (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE) */
+ __u32 blk_size;
} __attribute__((packed));
/* These two define direction. */