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authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>2006-03-27 01:17:54 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 08:44:59 -0800
commit3ac51e741a46af7a20f55e79d3e3aeaa93c6c544 (patch)
treecab595a4d9691d7602616337b7862a1a3d692b97 /include
parent1134e5ae79bab61c05657ca35a6297cf87202e35 (diff)
[PATCH] dm store geometry
Allow drive geometry to be stored with a new DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY ioctl. Device-mapper will now respond to HDIO_GETGEO. If the geometry information is not available, zero will be returned for all of the parameters. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compat_ioctl.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dm-ioctl.h17
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compat_ioctl.h b/include/linux/compat_ioctl.h
index efb518f16bb..89ab677cb99 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat_ioctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat_ioctl.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TABLE_DEPS_32)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TABLE_STATUS_32)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_LIST_VERSIONS_32)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TARGET_MSG_32)
+COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_32)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_VERSION)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_REMOVE_ALL)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_LIST_DEVICES)
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TABLE_DEPS)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TABLE_STATUS)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_LIST_VERSIONS)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_TARGET_MSG)
+COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY)
/* Big K */
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_FONT)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(GIO_FONT)
diff --git a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
index fa75ba0d635..c67c6786612 100644
--- a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h
@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@
*
* DM_TARGET_MSG:
* Pass a message string to the target at a specific offset of a device.
+ *
+ * DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY:
+ * Set the geometry of a device by passing in a string in this format:
+ *
+ * "cylinders heads sectors_per_track start_sector"
+ *
+ * Beware that CHS geometry is nearly obsolete and only provided
+ * for compatibility with dm devices that can be booted by a PC
+ * BIOS. See struct hd_geometry for range limits. Also note that
+ * the geometry is erased if the device size changes.
*/
/*
@@ -218,6 +228,7 @@ enum {
/* Added later */
DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD,
DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD,
+ DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD
};
/*
@@ -247,6 +258,7 @@ typedef char ioctl_struct[308];
#define DM_TABLE_STATUS_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TABLE_STATUS_CMD, ioctl_struct)
#define DM_LIST_VERSIONS_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD, ioctl_struct)
#define DM_TARGET_MSG_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD, ioctl_struct)
+#define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, ioctl_struct)
#endif
#define DM_IOCTL 0xfd
@@ -270,11 +282,12 @@ typedef char ioctl_struct[308];
#define DM_LIST_VERSIONS _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
#define DM_TARGET_MSG _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
+#define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
#define DM_VERSION_MAJOR 4
-#define DM_VERSION_MINOR 5
+#define DM_VERSION_MINOR 6
#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 0
-#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2005-10-04)"
+#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2006-02-17)"
/* Status bits */
#define DM_READONLY_FLAG (1 << 0) /* In/Out */