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From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/8] blkif: document how FreeBSD uses the physical-device backend node
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:09:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459436979-7475-2-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459436979-7475-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com>

FreeBSD blkback uses the physical-device-path xenstore node in order to
fetch the path to the underlying backing storage (either a block device or
raw image). This node is set by the hotplug scripts. Also clarify the usage
of the physical-device node.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
---
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
---
Changes since v2:
 - Use physical-device-path instead of physical-device in order to store the
   absolute path to the backing disk image.
---
 xen/include/public/io/blkif.h | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h b/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
index 99f0326..ce0dbfe 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
@@ -89,15 +89,23 @@
  *      Values:         string
  *
  *      A free formatted string providing sufficient information for the
- *      backend driver to open the backing device.  (e.g. the path to the
- *      file or block device representing the backing store.)
+ *      hotplug script to attach the device and provide a suitable
+ *      handler (ie: a block device) for blkback to use.
  *
  * physical-device
  *      Values:         "MAJOR:MINOR"
+ *      Notes: 11
  *
  *      MAJOR and MINOR are the major number and minor number of the
  *      backing device respectively.
  *
+ * physical-device-path
+ *      Values:         path string
+ *
+ *      A string that contains the absolute path to the disk image. On
+ *      NetBSD and Linux this is always a block device, while on FreeBSD
+ *      it can be either a block device or a regular file.
+ *
  * type
  *      Values:         "file", "phy", "tap"
  *
@@ -391,6 +399,7 @@
  *     than RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST.
  *(10) The discard-secure property may be present and will be set to 1 if the
  *     backing device supports secure discard.
+ *(11) Only used by Linux and NetBSD.
  */
 
 /*
-- 
2.6.4 (Apple Git-63)


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-31 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-31 15:09 [PATCH v3 0/8] libxl: add support for FreeBSD block hotplug scripts Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 15:09 ` Roger Pau Monne [this message]
2016-03-31 16:19   ` [PATCH v3 1/8] blkif: document how FreeBSD uses the physical-device backend node George Dunlap
2016-04-06 14:44   ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] hotplug/FreeBSD: add block hotplug script Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] libxl: refactor the FreeBSD hotplug script code Roger Pau Monne
2016-04-06 14:45   ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] libxl: add support for disk hotplug scripts on FreeBSD Roger Pau Monne
2016-04-01 14:07   ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] libxl: properly use vdev vs local device Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] libxl: add a FreeBSD implementation of libxl__devid_to_localdev Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] libxl: fix error message in local_device_attach_cb Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 15:09 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] hotplug/FreeBSD: document disk hotplug interface Roger Pau Monne
2016-03-31 16:38   ` George Dunlap
2016-03-31 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] libxl: add support for FreeBSD block hotplug scripts George Dunlap
2016-03-31 16:22   ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-06 14:47 ` Ian Jackson

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