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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 09:15:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 09:15:35 -0700
commit929cfdd5d3bdc772aff32e5a3fb4e3894394aa75 (patch)
treef67202d079eaf1f8d65b2e1bfac70b768ae34bc4 /include/xen
parent798ce8f1cca29dcc3f4b55947f611f4ffb32ac2b (diff)
parenta1c15c59feee36267c43142a41152fbf7402afb6 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.40/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (110 commits)
  loop: handle on-demand devices correctly
  loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
  drbd: fix warning
  drbd: fix warning
  drbd: Fix spelling
  drbd: fix schedule in atomic
  drbd: Take a more conservative approach when deciding max_bio_size
  drbd: Fixed state transitions after async outdate-peer-handler returned
  drbd: Disallow the peer_disk_state to be D_OUTDATED while connected
  drbd: Fix for the connection problems on high latency links
  drbd: fix potential activity log refcount imbalance in error path
  drbd: Only downgrade the disk state in case of disk failures
  drbd: fix disconnect/reconnect loop, if ping-timeout == ping-int
  drbd: fix potential distributed deadlock
  lru_cache.h: fix comments referring to ts_ instead of lc_
  drbd: Fix for application IO with the on-io-error=pass-on policy
  xen/p2m: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the M2P override functions.
  xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override.
  xen/blkback: don't fail empty barrier requests
  xen/blkback: fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end()
  ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/xen')
-rw-r--r--include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
index 61e523af3c46..3d5d6db864fe 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;
 #define BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER     2
 
 /*
+ * Recognised if "feature-flush-cache" is present in backend xenbus
+ * info.  A flush will ask the underlying storage hardware to flush its
+ * non-volatile caches as appropriate.  The "feature-flush-cache" node
+ * contains a boolean indicating whether flush requests are likely to
+ * succeed or fail. Either way, a flush request may fail at any time
+ * with BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP if it is unsupported by the underlying
+ * block-device hardware. The boolean simply indicates whether or not it
+ * is worthwhile for the frontend to attempt flushes.  If a backend does
+ * not recognise BLKIF_OP_WRITE_FLUSH_CACHE, it should *not* create the
+ * "feature-flush-cache" node!
+ */
+#define BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE   3
+/*
  * Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
  * This is carefully chosen so that sizeof(struct blkif_ring) <= PAGE_SIZE.
  * NB. This could be 12 if the ring indexes weren't stored in the same page.