On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:48:50PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 09.04.19 18:40, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > A recent Xen commit [1] clarified the semantics of sector based quantities
> > used in the blkif protocol such that it is now safe to create a xen-block
> > device with a logical_block_size != 512, as long as the device only
> > connects to a frontend advertizing 'feature-large-block-size'.
> > 
> > This patch modifies xen-block accordingly. It also uses a stack variable
> > for the BlockBackend in xen_block_realize() to avoid repeated dereferencing
> > of the BlockConf pointer, and changes the parameters of
> > xen_block_dataplane_create() so that the BlockBackend pointer and sector
> > size are passed expicitly rather than implicitly via the BlockConf.
> > 
> > These modifications have been tested against a recent Windows PV XENVBD
> > driver [2] using a xen-disk device with a 4kB logical block size.
> > 
> > [1] 
> > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=67e1c050e36b2c9900cca83618e56189effbad98
> > [2] https://winpvdrvbuild.xenproject.org:8080/job/XENVBD-master/126
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
> > ---
> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.c | 25 ++++++++++++----------
> >  hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.h |  3 ++-
> >  hw/block/xen-block.c           | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks, added “by frontend” to the error message and applied to my block
> branch:
> 
> https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu/commits/branch/block

:(, I've just sent a pull request with that patch:
https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190624153257.20163-1-anthony.per...@citrix.com/20190624153257.20163-2-anthony.per...@citrix.com/

I guess I need to start sending an email every time I've added a patch
to my queue.

Cheers,

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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