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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2012-01-11 16:29:31 +0100
committerZiyan <jaraidaniel@gmail.com>2016-01-08 10:42:57 +0100
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block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
Introduce an ioctl which permits applications to query whether a block device is rotational. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/compat_ioctl.c3
-rw-r--r--block/ioctl.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index cc3eb78..f8fafc7 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -733,6 +733,9 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
case BLKSECTGET:
return compat_put_ushort(arg,
queue_max_sectors(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
+ case BLKROTATIONAL:
+ return compat_put_ushort(arg,
+ !blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
case BLKRASET: /* compatible, but no compat_ptr (!) */
case BLKFRASET:
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index f082e04..fd129da 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ int blkdev_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned cmd,
return put_uint(arg, bdev_discard_zeroes_data(bdev));
case BLKSECTGET:
return put_ushort(arg, queue_max_sectors(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
+ case BLKROTATIONAL:
+ return put_ushort(arg, !blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
case BLKRASET:
case BLKFRASET:
if(!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))