xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support

The driver doesn't handle empty flushes. Disable barrier/flush write support until this is fixed up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
kawasaki · Oct 22, 2010 · 005a1d1 · 005a1d1
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diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -1067,8 +1067,15 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	 * If there are barriers, then we use flush.
 	 */
 	info->feature_flush = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * The driver doesn't properly handled empty flushes, so
+	 * lets disable barrier support for now.
+	 */
+#if 0
 	if (!err && barrier)
 		info->feature_flush = REQ_FLUSH;
+#endif
 
 	err = xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(sectors, info, binfo, sector_size);
 	if (err) {