[PATCH] virtio-blk: Allow extended partitions
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From: Fam Zheng <hidden>
Date: 2015-06-23 03:39:14
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block layer, the rest, virtio block and scsi drivers, virtio core · Maintainers:
Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang, Eugenio Pérez
This will allow up to DISK_MAX_PARTS (256) partitions, with for example GPT in the guest. Otherwise, the partition scan code will only discover the first 15 partitions. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <redacted> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index 5ea2f0b..97daa70 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) vblk->disk->private_data = vblk; vblk->disk->fops = &virtblk_fops; vblk->disk->driverfs_dev = &vdev->dev; + vblk->disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT; vblk->index = index; /* configure queue flush support */
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