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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/partitions/efi.c, branch tegra-11.2.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fs: partitions: efi: Add force_gpt_sector parameter</title>
<updated>2011-02-11T22:11:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Cross</name>
<email>ccross@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-28T21:45:06+00:00</published>
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force_gpt_sector=&lt;sector&gt; causes the GPT partition search to
look at the specified sector for a valid GPT header if the
GPT is not found at the beginning or the end of the block
device.

Change-Id: I9b5f85ce24719c0538d42ec5a94344c7f6556b2b
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
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force_gpt_sector=&lt;sector&gt; causes the GPT partition search to
look at the specified sector for a valid GPT header if the
GPT is not found at the beginning or the end of the block
device.

Change-Id: I9b5f85ce24719c0538d42ec5a94344c7f6556b2b
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: EFI: Convert UTF-16LE partition names to UTF-8</title>
<updated>2010-10-12T23:24:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Poynor</name>
<email>toddpoynor@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-12T23:17:04+00:00</published>
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Change-Id: Ib3f91913e69ca8d5a3bd644e3a01deca690067a8
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor &lt;toddpoynor@google.com&gt;
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Change-Id: Ib3f91913e69ca8d5a3bd644e3a01deca690067a8
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor &lt;toddpoynor@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>EFI/GPT: Register named partitions.</title>
<updated>2010-09-30T00:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Todd Poynor</name>
<email>toddpoynor@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-27T00:25:50+00:00</published>
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Change-Id: If318512de67d3d152192aa66b074427f4e5b5c2e
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor &lt;toddpoynor@google.com&gt;
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Change-Id: If318512de67d3d152192aa66b074427f4e5b5c2e
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor &lt;toddpoynor@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>partitions: fix sometimes unreadable partition strings</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:14+00:00</published>
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Fix this garbage happening quite often:

==&gt;	 sda:
	scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TOSHIBA
==&gt;	 sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 &lt;sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
			    ^^^
	Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
	sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
==&gt;	 sda5 sda6 sda7 &gt;

Make "sda: sda1 ..." lines actually lines.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix this garbage happening quite often:

==&gt;	 sda:
	scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TOSHIBA
==&gt;	 sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 &lt;sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
			    ^^^
	Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
	sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
==&gt;	 sda5 sda6 sda7 &gt;

Make "sda: sda1 ..." lines actually lines.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-05-22T02:37:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-22T02:37:45+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in -&gt;readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in -&gt;readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/partitions: use ADDPART_FLAG_RAID instead of magic number</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T22:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cesar Eduardo Barros</name>
<email>cesarb@cesarb.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-17T22:28:09+00:00</published>
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ADDPART_FLAG_RAID was introduced in commit d18d768, and most places were
converted to use it instead of a hardcoded value. However, some places seem
to have been missed.

Change all of them to the symbolic names via the following semantic patch:

@@
struct parsed_partitions *state;
expression E;
@@
(
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags = 1
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_RAID
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= 1
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_RAID
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags = 2
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= 2
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK
)

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros &lt;cesarb@cesarb.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ADDPART_FLAG_RAID was introduced in commit d18d768, and most places were
converted to use it instead of a hardcoded value. However, some places seem
to have been missed.

Change all of them to the symbolic names via the following semantic patch:

@@
struct parsed_partitions *state;
expression E;
@@
(
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags = 1
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_RAID
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= 1
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_RAID
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags = 2
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK
|
- state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= 2
+ state-&gt;parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK
)

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros &lt;cesarb@cesarb.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check code</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T18:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-15T18:09:30+00:00</published>
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Make the following changes to partition check code.

* Add -&gt;bdev to struct parsed_partitions.

* Introduce read_part_sector() which is a simple wrapper around
  read_dev_sector() which takes struct parsed_partitions *state
  instead of @bdev.

* For functions which used to take @state and @bdev, drop @bdev.  For
  functions which used to take @bdev, replace it with @state.

* While updating, drop superflous checks on NULL state/bdev in ldm.c.

This cleans up the API a bit and enables better handling of IO errors
during partition check as the generic partition check code now has
much better visibility into what went wrong in the low level code
paths.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Make the following changes to partition check code.

* Add -&gt;bdev to struct parsed_partitions.

* Introduce read_part_sector() which is a simple wrapper around
  read_dev_sector() which takes struct parsed_partitions *state
  instead of @bdev.

* For functions which used to take @state and @bdev, drop @bdev.  For
  functions which used to take @bdev, replace it with @state.

* While updating, drop superflous checks on NULL state/bdev in ldm.c.

This cleans up the API a bit and enables better handling of IO errors
during partition check as the generic partition check code now has
much better visibility into what went wrong in the low level code
paths.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>partitions: read whole sector with EFI GPT header</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T08:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karel Zak</name>
<email>kzak@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-23T08:29:58+00:00</published>
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The size of EFI GPT header is not static, but whole sector is
allocated for the header. The HeaderSize field must be greater
than 92 (= sizeof(struct gpt_header) and must be less than or
equal to the logical block size.

It means we have to read whole sector with the header, because the
header crc32 checksum is calculated according to HeaderSize.

For more details see UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009):
  - 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 93
  - Table 13. GUID Partition Table Header, page 96

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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The size of EFI GPT header is not static, but whole sector is
allocated for the header. The HeaderSize field must be greater
than 92 (= sizeof(struct gpt_header) and must be less than or
equal to the logical block size.

It means we have to read whole sector with the header, because the
header crc32 checksum is calculated according to HeaderSize.

For more details see UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009):
  - 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 93
  - Table 13. GUID Partition Table Header, page 96

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>partitions: use sector size for EFI GPT</title>
<updated>2009-11-23T08:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Karel Zak</name>
<email>kzak@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-23T08:29:13+00:00</published>
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Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing.
That's wrong.

UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page
95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It
means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux.

This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser.

The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted:

 # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096

  # ./parted /dev/sdb print
  Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi)
  Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
  Partition Table: gpt

  Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
   1      24.6kB  3002kB  2978kB               primary
   2      3002kB  6001kB  2998kB               primary
   3      6001kB  9003kB  3002kB               primary

  # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
  # dmesg | tail -1
   sdb: unknown partition table      &lt;---- !!!

with this patch:

  # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
  # dmesg | tail -1
   sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing.
That's wrong.

UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page
95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It
means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux.

This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser.

The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted:

 # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096

  # ./parted /dev/sdb print
  Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi)
  Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB
  Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
  Partition Table: gpt

  Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
   1      24.6kB  3002kB  2978kB               primary
   2      3002kB  6001kB  2998kB               primary
   3      6001kB  9003kB  3002kB               primary

  # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
  # dmesg | tail -1
   sdb: unknown partition table      &lt;---- !!!

with this patch:

  # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
  # dmesg | tail -1
   sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak &lt;kzak@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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