From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754669Ab1LMAQn (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:16:43 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:29330 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754540Ab1LMAQ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:16:26 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=NYRkJh/4 c=1 sm=0 a=QETZmXXmyubuBiJjAgCHWw==:17 a=YU8HmM6wsVwA:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=ersyLoyZyrwa3_OOiu8A:9 a=XxWkru6UDOmNnCge:21 a=lrMdyHpm8OyyNkx9:21 a=QETZmXXmyubuBiJjAgCHWw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 97.103.252.48 From: Phillip Susi To: vgoyal@redhat.com Cc: joe@perches.com, kzak@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com, psusi@cfl.rr.com Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add BLKPG_GET_PARTITION operation Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:16:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1323735382-5972-2-git-send-email-psusi@cfl.rr.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4 In-Reply-To: <1323735382-5972-1-git-send-email-psusi@cfl.rr.com> References: <4EE6990A.9010202@cfl.rr.com> <1323735382-5972-1-git-send-email-psusi@cfl.rr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Add a new operation to the BLKPG ioctl to read the partition. This allows user space to find the current start and length of a partition without having to open the partition and use the long depreciated HDIO_GETGEO ioctl. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi --- block/ioctl.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ include/linux/blkpg.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c index e4e9198..c84a949 100644 --- a/block/ioctl.c +++ b/block/ioctl.c @@ -139,6 +139,21 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user disk_put_part(part); mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); return 0; + case BLKPG_GET_PARTITION: + mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + part = disk_get_part(disk, partno); + if (!part) + { + mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + return -ENXIO; + } + p.start = part->start_sect << 9; + p.length = part->nr_sects << 9; + disk_put_part(part); + mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + if (copy_to_user(a.data, &p, sizeof(struct blkpg_partition))) + return -EFAULT; + return 0; default: return -EINVAL; } diff --git a/include/linux/blkpg.h b/include/linux/blkpg.h index a851944..72bf5e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkpg.h +++ b/include/linux/blkpg.h @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct blkpg_ioctl_arg { #define BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION 1 #define BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION 2 #define BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION 3 +#define BLKPG_GET_PARTITION 4 /* Sizes of name fields. Unused at present. */ #define BLKPG_DEVNAMELTH 64 -- 1.7.5.4