[PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.
Some partitioning systems create special partitions that
span the entire disk. One example are Sun partitions, and
this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the
extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block
and do other things.
Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions,
because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one.
So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which
we do not want. udev and friends can thus search for this
'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the
partition.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 3d73d94..ac32a2e 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
kobject_put(&p->kobj);
}
-void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len)
+void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags)
{
struct hd_struct *p;
@@ -390,6 +390,15 @@
if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress)
kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kset.kobj, "subsystem");
+ if (flags & ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK) {
+ static struct attribute addpartattr = {
+ .name = "whole_disk",
+ .mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
+ };
+
+ sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
+ }
partition_sysfs_add_subdir(p);
disk->part[part-1] = p;
}
@@ -543,9 +552,9 @@
printk(" %s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n",
disk->disk_name, p);
}
- add_partition(disk, p, from, size);
+ add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
- if (state->parts[p].flags)
+ if (state->parts[p].flags & ADDPART_FLAG_RAID)
md_autodetect_dev(bdev->bd_dev+p);
#endif
}
diff --git a/fs/partitions/msdos.c b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
index 8c7af17..d964d1f 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/msdos.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/msdos.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
put_partition(state, state->next, next, size);
if (SYS_IND(p) == LINUX_RAID_PARTITION)
- state->parts[state->next].flags = 1;
+ state->parts[state->next].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_RAID;
loopct = 0;
if (++state->next == state->limit)
goto done;
diff --git a/fs/partitions/sgi.c b/fs/partitions/sgi.c
index 6fa4ff8..ed5ac83 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/sgi.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/sgi.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
if (blocks) {
put_partition(state, slot, start, blocks);
if (be32_to_cpu(p->type) == LINUX_RAID_PARTITION)
- state->parts[slot].flags = 1;
+ state->parts[slot].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_RAID;
}
slot++;
}
diff --git a/fs/partitions/sun.c b/fs/partitions/sun.c
index 0a5927c..123f8b4 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/sun.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/sun.c
@@ -80,8 +80,11 @@
num_sectors = be32_to_cpu(p->num_sectors);
if (num_sectors) {
put_partition(state, slot, st_sector, num_sectors);
+ state->parts[slot].flags = 0;
if (label->infos[i].id == LINUX_RAID_PARTITION)
- state->parts[slot].flags = 1;
+ state->parts[slot].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_RAID;
+ if (label->infos[i].id == SUN_WHOLE_DISK)
+ state->parts[slot].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK;
}
slot++;
}