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block/raw-posix: avoid bogus fixup for cylinders on DASD disks
authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:41:19 +0000 (16:41 +0100)
committerMichael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:41:43 +0000 (16:41 -0500)
large volume DASD that have > 64k cylinders do claim to have
0xFFFE cylinders as special value in the old 16 bit field. We
want to pass this "token" along to the guest, instead of
calculating the real number. Otherwise qemu might fail with
"cyls must be between 1 and 65535"

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 972b543c6b63579aee590b738d21af09f01569f7)
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
block/raw-posix.c

index d9162fd30647e89dcadb9ac4ea590ef9b4e7fe7d..2fff1843cb17f78d893242407913db483fc959bf 100644 (file)
@@ -783,7 +783,6 @@ static int hdev_probe_geometry(BlockDriverState *bs, HDGeometry *geo)
 {
     BDRVRawState *s = bs->opaque;
     struct hd_geometry ioctl_geo = {0};
-    uint32_t blksize;
 
     /* If DASD, get its geometry */
     if (check_for_dasd(s->fd) < 0) {
@@ -803,12 +802,6 @@ static int hdev_probe_geometry(BlockDriverState *bs, HDGeometry *geo)
     }
     geo->heads = ioctl_geo.heads;
     geo->sectors = ioctl_geo.sectors;
-    if (!probe_physical_blocksize(s->fd, &blksize)) {
-        /* overwrite cyls: HDIO_GETGEO result is incorrect for big drives */
-        geo->cylinders = bdrv_nb_sectors(bs) / (blksize / BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE)
-                                             / (geo->heads * geo->sectors);
-        return 0;
-    }
     geo->cylinders = ioctl_geo.cylinders;
 
     return 0;