#ifdef MODULE #include #endif #include #include #include #include #include struct buffer_head *msdos_bread ( struct super_block *sb, int block) { struct buffer_head *ret = NULL; if (sb->s_blocksize == 512){ ret = bread (sb->s_dev,block,512); }else{ struct buffer_head *real = bread (sb->s_dev,block>>1,1024); if (real != NULL){ ret = (struct buffer_head *)kmalloc (sizeof(struct buffer_head) ,GFP_KERNEL); if (ret != NULL){ /* #Specification: msdos / strategy / special device / dummy blocks Many special device (Scsi optical disk for one) use larger hardware sector size. This allows for higher capacity. Most of the time, the MsDOS file system that sit on this device is totally unaligned. It use logically 512 bytes sector size, with logical sector starting in the middle of a hardware block. The bad news is that a hardware sector may hold data own by two different files. This means that the hardware sector must be read, patch and written almost all the time. Needless to say that it kills write performance on all OS. Internally the linux msdos fs is using 512 bytes logical sector. When accessing such a device, we allocate dummy buffer cache blocks, that we stuff with the information of a real one (1k large). This strategy is used to hide this difference to the core of the msdos fs. The slowdown is not hidden though! */ /* The memset is there only to catch errors. The msdos fs is only using b_data */ memset (ret,0,sizeof(*ret)); ret->b_data = real->b_data; if (block & 1) ret->b_data += 512; ret->b_next = real; }else{ brelse (real); } } } return ret; } struct buffer_head *msdos_getblk ( struct super_block *sb, int block) { struct buffer_head *ret = NULL; if (sb->s_blocksize == 512){ ret = getblk (sb->s_dev,block,512); }else{ /* #Specification: msdos / special device / writing A write is always preceded by a read of the complete block (large hardware sector size). This defeat write performance. There is a possibility to optimize this when writing large chunk by making sure we are filling large block. Volunteer ? */ ret = msdos_bread (sb,block); } return ret; } void msdos_brelse ( struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh) { if (bh != NULL){ if (sb->s_blocksize == 512){ brelse (bh); }else{ brelse (bh->b_next); /* We can free the dummy because a new one is allocated at each msdos_getblk() and msdos_bread(). */ kfree (bh); } } } void msdos_mark_buffer_dirty ( struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh, int dirty_val) { if (sb->s_blocksize != 512){ bh = bh->b_next; } mark_buffer_dirty (bh,dirty_val); } void msdos_set_uptodate ( struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh, int val) { if (sb->s_blocksize != 512){ bh = bh->b_next; } bh->b_uptodate = val; } int msdos_is_uptodate ( struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh) { if (sb->s_blocksize != 512){ bh = bh->b_next; } return bh->b_uptodate; } void msdos_ll_rw_block ( struct super_block *sb, int opr, int nbreq, struct buffer_head *bh[32]) { if (sb->s_blocksize == 512){ ll_rw_block(opr,nbreq,bh); }else{ struct buffer_head *tmp[32]; int i; for (i=0; ib_next; } ll_rw_block(opr,nbreq,tmp); } }