[dm-devel] [PATCH] 2.4: dm-zero

Kevin Corry kevcorry at us.ibm.com
Wed Dec 3 11:36:01 UTC 2003


dm-zero target. Provides a block-device version of /dev/zero. This target was
originally written by Christophe Saout (http://www.saout.de/misc/) for 2.6.
I've backported it to 2.4. This patch is against device-mapper-1.00.07.


diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/Makefile linux/drivers/md/Makefile
--- linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/Makefile	2003-12-03 11:06:25.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/md/Makefile	2003-12-03 10:56:22.000000000 -0600
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 lvm-mod-objs	:= lvm.o lvm-snap.o lvm-fs.o
 dm-mod-objs	:= dm.o dm-table.o dm-target.o dm-ioctl.o \
 		   dm-linear.o dm-stripe.o dm-snapshot.o dm-exception-store.o \
-		   kcopyd.o dm-daemon.o dm-io.o
+		   kcopyd.o dm-daemon.o dm-io.o dm-zero.o
 dm-mirror-mod-objs := dm-raid1.o dm-log.o
 
 # Note: link order is important.  All raid personalities
diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm-zero.c linux/drivers/md/dm-zero.c
--- linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm-zero.c	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-zero.c	2003-12-03 11:05:49.000000000 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Christophe Saout <christophe at saout.de>, 2003
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPL.
+ */
+
+#include "dm.h"
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+
+/*
+ * Construct a dummy mapping that only returns zeros
+ */
+static int zero_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	if (argc != 0) {
+		ti->error = "dm-zero: No arguments required";
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return zeros only on reads
+ */
+static int zero_map(struct dm_target *ti, struct buffer_head *bh, int rw,
+		      union map_info *map_context)
+{
+	switch(rw) {
+	case READ:
+		memset(bh->b_data, 0, bh->b_size);
+		break;
+	case READA:
+		/* readahead of null bytes only wastes buffer cache */
+		return -EIO;
+	case WRITE:
+		/* writes get silently dropped */
+		break;
+	}
+
+	if (bh->b_end_io)
+		bh->b_end_io(bh, 1);
+
+	/* accepted bh, don't make new request */
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct target_type zero_target = {
+	.name   = "zero",
+	.module = THIS_MODULE,
+	.ctr    = zero_ctr,
+	.map    = zero_map,
+};
+
+int dm_zero_init(void)
+{
+	int r = dm_register_target(&zero_target);
+
+	if (r < 0)
+		DMERR("zero: register failed %d", r);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
+void dm_zero_exit(void)
+{
+	int r = dm_unregister_target(&zero_target);
+
+	if (r < 0)
+		DMERR("zero: unregister failed %d", r);
+}
+
diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm.c linux/drivers/md/dm.c
--- linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm.c	2003-12-03 11:06:25.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm.c	2003-12-03 10:56:48.000000000 -0600
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@
 	xx(dm_stripe)
 	xx(dm_snapshot)
 	xx(dm_interface)
+	xx(dm_zero)
 #undef xx
 };
 
diff -Naur linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm.h linux/drivers/md/dm.h
--- linux-2.4.22-dm-1.00.07/drivers/md/dm.h	2003-12-03 11:06:25.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm.h	2003-12-03 10:59:33.000000000 -0600
@@ -172,4 +172,7 @@
 int dm_snapshot_init(void);
 void dm_snapshot_exit(void);
 
+int dm_zero_init(void);
+void dm_zero_exit(void);
+
 #endif





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