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Subject[PATCH 1/1] NBD: add partition support
This patch from Laurent Vivier (with minor changes by Paul Clements) 
adds partition support to NBD. By default this is turned off, but can be
enabled with a new module parameter, max_part.

Below, Laurent notes that partition table re-read doesn't automatically
occur. For now you'll have to open("/dev/nbdX") to get that to happen.
Longer term, nbd-client can be modified to fork just before nbd_do_it()
and then call ioctl(BLKRRPART, "/dev/nbdX") in the parent process
(probably need to wait for the "pid" file to show up in /sys to avoid a
race).

Thanks,
Paul
From: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>

This patch allows to use partitions with network block devices (NBD).

A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be
able to manage per network block device. This parameter is "max_part".

For instance, to manage 63 partitions / loop device, we will do:

[on the server side]
# nbd-server 1234 /dev/sdb
[on the client side]
# modprobe nbd max_part=63
# ls -l /dev/nbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:14 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 64 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 640 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 704 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 768 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 832 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 896 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 960 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 128 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 192 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 256 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 320 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 384 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 448 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 512 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 576 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd9
# nbd-client localhost 1234 /dev/nbd0
Negotiation: ..size = 80418240KB
bs=1024, sz=80418240

-------NOTE, RFC: partition table is not automatically read.
The driver sets bdev->bd_invalidated to 1 to force the read of the partition
table of the device, but this is done only on an open of the device.
So we have to do a "touch /dev/nbdX" or something like that.
It can't be done from the nbd-client or nbd driver because at this
level we can't ask to read the partition table and to serve the request
at the same time (-> deadlock)

If someone has a better idea, I'm open to any suggestion.
-------NOTE, RFC

# fdisk -l /dev/nbd0

Disk /dev/nbd0: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/nbd0p1 * 1 9965 80043831 83 Linux
/dev/nbd0p2 9966 10011 369495 5 Extended
/dev/nbd0p5 9966 10011 369463+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 1 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 2 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 5 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p5
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
bin dev initrd lost+found opt sbin sys var
boot etc initrd.img media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
cdrom home lib mnt root srv usr
# umount /mnt
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
-------NOTE
On "nbd-client -d", we can do an iocl(BLKRRPART) to update partition table:
as the size of the device is 0, we don't have to serve the partition manager
request (-> no deadlock).
-------NOTE

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>

--- ./drivers/block/nbd.c.LOCAL 2008-03-31 13:08:13.000000000 -0400
+++ ./drivers/block/nbd.c 2008-04-01 17:03:05.000000000 -0400
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static unsigned int debugflags;

static unsigned int nbds_max = 16;
static struct nbd_device *nbd_dev;
+static int max_part;

/*
* Use just one lock (or at most 1 per NIC). Two arguments for this:
@@ -603,10 +604,13 @@ static int nbd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
error = -EINVAL;
file = fget(arg);
if (file) {
+ struct block_device *bdev = inode->i_bdev;
inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
if (S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) {
lo->file = file;
lo->sock = SOCKET_I(inode);
+ if (max_part > 0)
+ bdev->bd_invalidated = 1;
error = 0;
} else {
fput(file);
@@ -656,6 +660,8 @@ static int nbd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
lo->bytesize = 0;
inode->i_bdev->bd_inode->i_size = 0;
set_capacity(lo->disk, 0);
+ if (max_part > 0)
+ ioctl_by_bdev(inode->i_bdev, BLKRRPART, 0);
return lo->harderror;
case NBD_CLEAR_QUE:
/*
@@ -689,6 +695,7 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
{
int err = -ENOMEM;
int i;
+ int part_shift;

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct nbd_request) != 28);

@@ -696,8 +703,17 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
if (!nbd_dev)
return -ENOMEM;

+ if (max_part < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "nbd: max_part must be >= 0\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ part_shift = 0;
+ if (max_part > 0)
+ part_shift = fls(max_part);
+
for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) {
- struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1);
+ struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1 << part_shift);
elevator_t *old_e;
if (!disk)
goto out;
@@ -741,10 +757,9 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
nbd_dev[i].blksize = 1024;
nbd_dev[i].bytesize = 0;
disk->major = NBD_MAJOR;
- disk->first_minor = i;
+ disk->first_minor = i << part_shift;
disk->fops = &nbd_fops;
disk->private_data = &nbd_dev[i];
- disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO;
sprintf(disk->disk_name, "nbd%d", i);
set_capacity(disk, 0);
add_disk(disk);
@@ -782,7 +797,9 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Network Block Device
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

module_param(nbds_max, int, 0444);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(nbds_max, "How many network block devices to initialize.");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nbds_max, "number of network block devices to initialize (default: 16)");
+module_param(max_part, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_part, "number of partitions per device (default: 0)");
#ifndef NDEBUG
module_param(debugflags, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(debugflags, "flags for controlling debug output");
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