[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] xen: fix gnttab handling with old dom0 kernels

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

Trying to start a domain with a qdisk backend on an old dom0 kernel
(non-pvops xen kernel) will fail as xengnttab_set_max_grants() will
succeed only if called directly after opening the gnttab device.

These two patches address the issue by:

- moving the test for availability of xengnttab_grant_copy() from
  the qdisk backend to generic backend handling in order to not have
  to issue the grant copy ioctl with the qdisk specific file handle
- opening the gnttab device in blk_connect() only in order to
  guarantee xengnttab_set_max_grants() is called just after opening
  the gnttab device

Juergen Gross (2):
  xen: add a global indicator for grant copy being available
  xen: dont try setting max grants multiple times

 hw/block/xen_disk.c          | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
 hw/xen/xen_backend.c         | 11 +++++++++++
 include/hw/xen/xen_backend.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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2.12.3


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