Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-3.11/drivers

Konrad writes:

It has the 'feature-max-indirect-segments' implemented in both backend
and frontend. The current problem with the backend and frontend is that the
segment size is limited to 11 pages. It means we can at most squeeze in 44kB per
request. The ring can hold 32 (next power of two below 36) requests, meaning we
can do 1.4M of outstanding requests. Nowadays that is not enough.

The problem in the past was addressed in two ways - but neither one went upstream.
The first solution to this proposed by Justin from Spectralogic was to negotiate
the segment size.  This means that the ‘struct blkif_sring_entry’ is now a variable size.
It can expand from 112 bytes (cover 11 pages of data - 44kB) to 1580 bytes
(256 pages of data - so 1MB). It is a simple extension by just making the array in the
request expand from 11 to a variable size negotiated. But it had limits: this extension
still limits the number of segments per request to 255 (as the total number must be
specified in the request, which only has an 8-bit field for that purpose).

The other solution (from Intel - Ronghui) was to create one extra ring that only has the
‘struct blkif_request_segment’ in them. The ‘struct blkif_request’ would be changed to have
an index in said ‘segment ring’. There is only one segment ring. This means that the size of
the initial ring is still the same. The requests would point to the segment and enumerate out
how many of the indexes it wants to use. The limit is of course the size of the segment.
If one assumes a one-page segment this means we can in one request cover ~4MB.

Those patches were posted as RFC and the author never followed up on the ideas on changing
it to be a bit more flexible.

There is yet another mechanism that could be employed  (which these patches implement) - and it
borrows from VirtIO protocol. And that is the ‘indirect descriptors’. This very similar to
what Intel suggests, but with a twist. The twist is to negotiate how many of these
'segment' pages (aka indirect descriptor pages) we want to support (in reality we negotiate
how many entries in the segment we want to cover, and we module the number if it is
bigger than the segment size).

This means that with the existing 36 slots in the ring (single page) we can cover:
32 slots * each blkif_request_indirect covers: 512 * 4096 ~= 64M. Since we ample space
in the blkif_request_indirect to span more than one indirect page, that number (64M)
can be also multiplied by eight = 512MB.

Roger Pau Monne took the idea and implemented them in these patches. They work
great and the corner cases (migration between backends with and without this extension)
work nicely. The backend has a limit right now off how many indirect entries
it can handle: one indirect page, and at maximum 256 entries (out of 512 - so  50% of the page
is used). That comes out to 32 slots * 256 entries in a indirect page * 1 indirect page
per request * 4096 = 32MB.

This is a conservative number that can change in the future. Right now it strikes
a good balance between giving excellent performance, memory usage in the backend, and
balancing the needs of many guests.

In the patchset there is also the split of the blkback structure to be per-VBD.
This means that the spinlock contention we had with many guests trying to do I/O and
all the blkback threads hitting the same lock has been eliminated.

Also there are bug-fixes to deal with oddly sized sectors, insane amounts on
th ring, and also a security fix (posted earlier).

4 files changed, 1214 insertions, 422 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index dd5b2fed97e..bf4b9d282c0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -50,110 +50,118 @@
 #include "common.h"
 
 /*
- * These are rather arbitrary. They are fairly large because adjacent requests
- * pulled from a communication ring are quite likely to end up being part of
- * the same scatter/gather request at the disc.
+ * Maximum number of unused free pages to keep in the internal buffer.
+ * Setting this to a value too low will reduce memory used in each backend,
+ * but can have a performance penalty.
  *
- * ** TRY INCREASING 'xen_blkif_reqs' IF WRITE SPEEDS SEEM TOO LOW **
- *
- * This will increase the chances of being able to write whole tracks.
- * 64 should be enough to keep us competitive with Linux.
+ * A sane value is xen_blkif_reqs * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, but can
+ * be set to a lower value that might degrade performance on some intensive
+ * IO workloads.
  */
-static int xen_blkif_reqs = 64;
-module_param_named(reqs, xen_blkif_reqs, int, 0);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(reqs, "Number of blkback requests to allocate");
 
-/* Run-time switchable: /sys/module/blkback/parameters/ */
-static unsigned int log_stats;
-module_param(log_stats, int, 0644);
+static int xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages = 1024;
+module_param_named(max_buffer_pages, xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_buffer_pages,
+"Maximum number of free pages to keep in each block backend buffer");
 
 /*
- * Each outstanding request that we've passed to the lower device layers has a
- * 'pending_req' allocated to it. Each buffer_head that completes decrements
- * the pendcnt towards zero. When it hits zero, the specified domain has a
- * response queued for it, with the saved 'id' passed back.
+ * Maximum number of grants to map persistently in blkback. For maximum
+ * performance this should be the total numbers of grants that can be used
+ * to fill the ring, but since this might become too high, specially with
+ * the use of indirect descriptors, we set it to a value that provides good
+ * performance without using too much memory.
+ *
+ * When the list of persistent grants is full we clean it up using a LRU
+ * algorithm.
  */
-struct pending_req {
-	struct xen_blkif	*blkif;
-	u64			id;
-	int			nr_pages;
-	atomic_t		pendcnt;
-	unsigned short		operation;
-	int			status;
-	struct list_head	free_list;
-	DECLARE_BITMAP(unmap_seg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
-};
 
-#define BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE (~0)
+static int xen_blkif_max_pgrants = 1056;
+module_param_named(max_persistent_grants, xen_blkif_max_pgrants, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_persistent_grants,
+                 "Maximum number of grants to map persistently");
 
-struct xen_blkbk {
-	struct pending_req	*pending_reqs;
-	/* List of all 'pending_req' available */
-	struct list_head	pending_free;
-	/* And its spinlock. */
-	spinlock_t		pending_free_lock;
-	wait_queue_head_t	pending_free_wq;
-	/* The list of all pages that are available. */
-	struct page		**pending_pages;
-	/* And the grant handles that are available. */
-	grant_handle_t		*pending_grant_handles;
-};
-
-static struct xen_blkbk *blkbk;
+/*
+ * The LRU mechanism to clean the lists of persistent grants needs to
+ * be executed periodically. The time interval between consecutive executions
+ * of the purge mechanism is set in ms.
+ */
+#define LRU_INTERVAL 100
 
 /*
- * Maximum number of grant pages that can be mapped in blkback.
- * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST * RING_SIZE is the maximum number of
- * pages that blkback will persistently map.
- * Currently, this is:
- * RING_SIZE = 32 (for all known ring types)
- * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST = 11
- * sizeof(struct persistent_gnt) = 48
- * So the maximum memory used to store the grants is:
- * 32 * 11 * 48 = 16896 bytes
+ * When the persistent grants list is full we will remove unused grants
+ * from the list. The percent number of grants to be removed at each LRU
+ * execution.
  */
-static inline unsigned int max_mapped_grant_pages(enum blkif_protocol protocol)
+#define LRU_PERCENT_CLEAN 5
+
+/* Run-time switchable: /sys/module/blkback/parameters/ */
+static unsigned int log_stats;
+module_param(log_stats, int, 0644);
+
+#define BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE (~0)
+
+/* Number of free pages to remove on each call to free_xenballooned_pages */
+#define NUM_BATCH_FREE_PAGES 10
+
+static inline int get_free_page(struct xen_blkif *blkif, struct page **page)
 {
-	switch (protocol) {
-	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_NATIVE:
-		return __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE) *
-			   BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
-	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_32:
-		return __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif_x86_32, PAGE_SIZE) *
-			   BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
-	case BLKIF_PROTOCOL_X86_64:
-		return __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif_x86_64, PAGE_SIZE) *
-			   BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
-	default:
-		BUG();
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+	if (list_empty(&blkif->free_pages)) {
+		BUG_ON(blkif->free_pages_num != 0);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+		return alloc_xenballooned_pages(1, page, false);
 	}
+	BUG_ON(blkif->free_pages_num == 0);
+	page[0] = list_first_entry(&blkif->free_pages, struct page, lru);
+	list_del(&page[0]->lru);
+	blkif->free_pages_num--;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-
-/*
- * Little helpful macro to figure out the index and virtual address of the
- * pending_pages[..]. For each 'pending_req' we have have up to
- * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST (11) pages. The seg would be from 0 through
- * 10 and would index in the pending_pages[..].
- */
-static inline int vaddr_pagenr(struct pending_req *req, int seg)
+static inline void put_free_pages(struct xen_blkif *blkif, struct page **page,
+                                  int num)
 {
-	return (req - blkbk->pending_reqs) *
-		BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST + seg;
-}
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int i;
 
-#define pending_page(req, seg) pending_pages[vaddr_pagenr(req, seg)]
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+	for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
+		list_add(&page[i]->lru, &blkif->free_pages);
+	blkif->free_pages_num += num;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+}
 
-static inline unsigned long vaddr(struct pending_req *req, int seg)
+static inline void shrink_free_pagepool(struct xen_blkif *blkif, int num)
 {
-	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(blkbk->pending_page(req, seg));
-	return (unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(pfn);
-}
+	/* Remove requested pages in batches of NUM_BATCH_FREE_PAGES */
+	struct page *page[NUM_BATCH_FREE_PAGES];
+	unsigned int num_pages = 0;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-#define pending_handle(_req, _seg) \
-	(blkbk->pending_grant_handles[vaddr_pagenr(_req, _seg)])
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+	while (blkif->free_pages_num > num) {
+		BUG_ON(list_empty(&blkif->free_pages));
+		page[num_pages] = list_first_entry(&blkif->free_pages,
+		                                   struct page, lru);
+		list_del(&page[num_pages]->lru);
+		blkif->free_pages_num--;
+		if (++num_pages == NUM_BATCH_FREE_PAGES) {
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+			free_xenballooned_pages(num_pages, page);
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+			num_pages = 0;
+		}
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->free_pages_lock, flags);
+	if (num_pages != 0)
+		free_xenballooned_pages(num_pages, page);
+}
 
+#define vaddr(page) ((unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page)))
 
 static int do_block_io_op(struct xen_blkif *blkif);
 static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
@@ -170,13 +178,29 @@ static void make_response(struct xen_blkif *blkif, u64 id,
 	     (n) = (&(pos)->node != NULL) ? rb_next(&(pos)->node) : NULL)
 
 
-static void add_persistent_gnt(struct rb_root *root,
+/*
+ * We don't need locking around the persistent grant helpers
+ * because blkback uses a single-thread for each backed, so we
+ * can be sure that this functions will never be called recursively.
+ *
+ * The only exception to that is put_persistent_grant, that can be called
+ * from interrupt context (by xen_blkbk_unmap), so we have to use atomic
+ * bit operations to modify the flags of a persistent grant and to count
+ * the number of used grants.
+ */
+static int add_persistent_gnt(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 			       struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt)
 {
-	struct rb_node **new = &(root->rb_node), *parent = NULL;
+	struct rb_node **new = NULL, *parent = NULL;
 	struct persistent_gnt *this;
 
+	if (blkif->persistent_gnt_c >= xen_blkif_max_pgrants) {
+		if (!blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants)
+			blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 1;
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
 	/* Figure out where to put new node */
+	new = &blkif->persistent_gnts.rb_node;
 	while (*new) {
 		this = container_of(*new, struct persistent_gnt, node);
 
@@ -186,22 +210,28 @@ static void add_persistent_gnt(struct rb_root *root,
 		else if (persistent_gnt->gnt > this->gnt)
 			new = &((*new)->rb_right);
 		else {
-			pr_alert(DRV_PFX " trying to add a gref that's already in the tree\n");
-			BUG();
+			pr_alert_ratelimited(DRV_PFX " trying to add a gref that's already in the tree\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 	}
 
+	bitmap_zero(persistent_gnt->flags, PERSISTENT_GNT_FLAGS_SIZE);
+	set_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags);
 	/* Add new node and rebalance tree. */
 	rb_link_node(&(persistent_gnt->node), parent, new);
-	rb_insert_color(&(persistent_gnt->node), root);
+	rb_insert_color(&(persistent_gnt->node), &blkif->persistent_gnts);
+	blkif->persistent_gnt_c++;
+	atomic_inc(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use);
+	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct persistent_gnt *get_persistent_gnt(struct rb_root *root,
+static struct persistent_gnt *get_persistent_gnt(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 						 grant_ref_t gref)
 {
 	struct persistent_gnt *data;
-	struct rb_node *node = root->rb_node;
+	struct rb_node *node = NULL;
 
+	node = blkif->persistent_gnts.rb_node;
 	while (node) {
 		data = container_of(node, struct persistent_gnt, node);
 
@@ -209,13 +239,31 @@ static struct persistent_gnt *get_persistent_gnt(struct rb_root *root,
 			node = node->rb_left;
 		else if (gref > data->gnt)
 			node = node->rb_right;
-		else
+		else {
+			if(test_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, data->flags)) {
+				pr_alert_ratelimited(DRV_PFX " requesting a grant already in use\n");
+				return NULL;
+			}
+			set_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, data->flags);
+			atomic_inc(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use);
 			return data;
+		}
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-static void free_persistent_gnts(struct rb_root *root, unsigned int num)
+static void put_persistent_gnt(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
+                               struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt)
+{
+	if(!test_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags))
+	          pr_alert_ratelimited(DRV_PFX " freeing a grant already unused");
+	set_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_WAS_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags);
+	clear_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags);
+	atomic_dec(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use);
+}
+
+static void free_persistent_gnts(struct xen_blkif *blkif, struct rb_root *root,
+                                 unsigned int num)
 {
 	struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref unmap[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
 	struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
@@ -240,7 +288,7 @@ static void free_persistent_gnts(struct rb_root *root, unsigned int num)
 			ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, pages,
 				segs_to_unmap);
 			BUG_ON(ret);
-			free_xenballooned_pages(segs_to_unmap, pages);
+			put_free_pages(blkif, pages, segs_to_unmap);
 			segs_to_unmap = 0;
 		}
 
@@ -251,21 +299,148 @@ static void free_persistent_gnts(struct rb_root *root, unsigned int num)
 	BUG_ON(num != 0);
 }
 
+static void unmap_purged_grants(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref unmap[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt;
+	int ret, segs_to_unmap = 0;
+	struct xen_blkif *blkif = container_of(work, typeof(*blkif), persistent_purge_work);
+
+	while(!list_empty(&blkif->persistent_purge_list)) {
+		persistent_gnt = list_first_entry(&blkif->persistent_purge_list,
+		                                  struct persistent_gnt,
+		                                  remove_node);
+		list_del(&persistent_gnt->remove_node);
+
+		gnttab_set_unmap_op(&unmap[segs_to_unmap],
+			vaddr(persistent_gnt->page),
+			GNTMAP_host_map,
+			persistent_gnt->handle);
+
+		pages[segs_to_unmap] = persistent_gnt->page;
+
+		if (++segs_to_unmap == BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST) {
+			ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, pages,
+				segs_to_unmap);
+			BUG_ON(ret);
+			put_free_pages(blkif, pages, segs_to_unmap);
+			segs_to_unmap = 0;
+		}
+		kfree(persistent_gnt);
+	}
+	if (segs_to_unmap > 0) {
+		ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, pages, segs_to_unmap);
+		BUG_ON(ret);
+		put_free_pages(blkif, pages, segs_to_unmap);
+	}
+}
+
+static void purge_persistent_gnt(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
+{
+	struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt;
+	struct rb_node *n;
+	unsigned int num_clean, total;
+	bool scan_used = false, clean_used = false;
+	struct rb_root *root;
+
+	if (blkif->persistent_gnt_c < xen_blkif_max_pgrants ||
+	    (blkif->persistent_gnt_c == xen_blkif_max_pgrants &&
+	    !blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants)) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (work_pending(&blkif->persistent_purge_work)) {
+		pr_alert_ratelimited(DRV_PFX "Scheduled work from previous purge is still pending, cannot purge list\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	num_clean = (xen_blkif_max_pgrants / 100) * LRU_PERCENT_CLEAN;
+	num_clean = blkif->persistent_gnt_c - xen_blkif_max_pgrants + num_clean;
+	num_clean = min(blkif->persistent_gnt_c, num_clean);
+	if ((num_clean == 0) ||
+	    (num_clean > (blkif->persistent_gnt_c - atomic_read(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use))))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * At this point, we can assure that there will be no calls
+         * to get_persistent_grant (because we are executing this code from
+         * xen_blkif_schedule), there can only be calls to put_persistent_gnt,
+         * which means that the number of currently used grants will go down,
+         * but never up, so we will always be able to remove the requested
+         * number of grants.
+	 */
+
+	total = num_clean;
+
+	pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Going to purge %u persistent grants\n", num_clean);
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->persistent_purge_list);
+	root = &blkif->persistent_gnts;
+purge_list:
+	foreach_grant_safe(persistent_gnt, n, root, node) {
+		BUG_ON(persistent_gnt->handle ==
+			BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE);
+
+		if (clean_used) {
+			clear_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_WAS_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (test_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags))
+			continue;
+		if (!scan_used &&
+		    (test_bit(PERSISTENT_GNT_WAS_ACTIVE, persistent_gnt->flags)))
+			continue;
+
+		rb_erase(&persistent_gnt->node, root);
+		list_add(&persistent_gnt->remove_node,
+		         &blkif->persistent_purge_list);
+		if (--num_clean == 0)
+			goto finished;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * If we get here it means we also need to start cleaning
+	 * grants that were used since last purge in order to cope
+	 * with the requested num
+	 */
+	if (!scan_used && !clean_used) {
+		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Still missing %u purged frames\n", num_clean);
+		scan_used = true;
+		goto purge_list;
+	}
+finished:
+	if (!clean_used) {
+		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Finished scanning for grants to clean, removing used flag\n");
+		clean_used = true;
+		goto purge_list;
+	}
+
+	blkif->persistent_gnt_c -= (total - num_clean);
+	blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
+
+	/* We can defer this work */
+	INIT_WORK(&blkif->persistent_purge_work, unmap_purged_grants);
+	schedule_work(&blkif->persistent_purge_work);
+	pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Purged %u/%u\n", (total - num_clean), total);
+	return;
+}
+
 /*
  * Retrieve from the 'pending_reqs' a free pending_req structure to be used.
  */
-static struct pending_req *alloc_req(void)
+static struct pending_req *alloc_req(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 {
 	struct pending_req *req = NULL;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkbk->pending_free_lock, flags);
-	if (!list_empty(&blkbk->pending_free)) {
-		req = list_entry(blkbk->pending_free.next, struct pending_req,
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->pending_free_lock, flags);
+	if (!list_empty(&blkif->pending_free)) {
+		req = list_entry(blkif->pending_free.next, struct pending_req,
 				 free_list);
 		list_del(&req->free_list);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkbk->pending_free_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->pending_free_lock, flags);
 	return req;
 }
 
@@ -273,17 +448,17 @@ static struct pending_req *alloc_req(void)
  * Return the 'pending_req' structure back to the freepool. We also
  * wake up the thread if it was waiting for a free page.
  */
-static void free_req(struct pending_req *req)
+static void free_req(struct xen_blkif *blkif, struct pending_req *req)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int was_empty;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkbk->pending_free_lock, flags);
-	was_empty = list_empty(&blkbk->pending_free);
-	list_add(&req->free_list, &blkbk->pending_free);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkbk->pending_free_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif->pending_free_lock, flags);
+	was_empty = list_empty(&blkif->pending_free);
+	list_add(&req->free_list, &blkif->pending_free);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkif->pending_free_lock, flags);
 	if (was_empty)
-		wake_up(&blkbk->pending_free_wq);
+		wake_up(&blkif->pending_free_wq);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -382,10 +557,12 @@ irqreturn_t xen_blkif_be_int(int irq, void *dev_id)
 static void print_stats(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 {
 	pr_info("xen-blkback (%s): oo %3llu  |  rd %4llu  |  wr %4llu  |  f %4llu"
-		 "  |  ds %4llu\n",
+		 "  |  ds %4llu | pg: %4u/%4d\n",
 		 current->comm, blkif->st_oo_req,
 		 blkif->st_rd_req, blkif->st_wr_req,
-		 blkif->st_f_req, blkif->st_ds_req);
+		 blkif->st_f_req, blkif->st_ds_req,
+		 blkif->persistent_gnt_c,
+		 xen_blkif_max_pgrants);
 	blkif->st_print = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(10 * 1000);
 	blkif->st_rd_req = 0;
 	blkif->st_wr_req = 0;
@@ -397,6 +574,8 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
 {
 	struct xen_blkif *blkif = arg;
 	struct xen_vbd *vbd = &blkif->vbd;
+	unsigned long timeout;
+	int ret;
 
 	xen_blkif_get(blkif);
 
@@ -406,27 +585,52 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
 		if (unlikely(vbd->size != vbd_sz(vbd)))
 			xen_vbd_resize(blkif);
 
-		wait_event_interruptible(
+		timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(LRU_INTERVAL);
+
+		timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(
 			blkif->wq,
-			blkif->waiting_reqs || kthread_should_stop());
-		wait_event_interruptible(
-			blkbk->pending_free_wq,
-			!list_empty(&blkbk->pending_free) ||
-			kthread_should_stop());
+			blkif->waiting_reqs || kthread_should_stop(),
+			timeout);
+		if (timeout == 0)
+			goto purge_gnt_list;
+		timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(
+			blkif->pending_free_wq,
+			!list_empty(&blkif->pending_free) ||
+			kthread_should_stop(),
+			timeout);
+		if (timeout == 0)
+			goto purge_gnt_list;
 
 		blkif->waiting_reqs = 0;
 		smp_mb(); /* clear flag *before* checking for work */
 
-		if (do_block_io_op(blkif))
+		ret = do_block_io_op(blkif);
+		if (ret > 0)
 			blkif->waiting_reqs = 1;
+		if (ret == -EACCES)
+			wait_event_interruptible(blkif->shutdown_wq,
+						 kthread_should_stop());
+
+purge_gnt_list:
+		if (blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent &&
+		    time_after(jiffies, blkif->next_lru)) {
+			purge_persistent_gnt(blkif);
+			blkif->next_lru = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(LRU_INTERVAL);
+		}
+
+		/* Shrink if we have more than xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages */
+		shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, xen_blkif_max_buffer_pages);
 
 		if (log_stats && time_after(jiffies, blkif->st_print))
 			print_stats(blkif);
 	}
 
+	/* Since we are shutting down remove all pages from the buffer */
+	shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, 0 /* All */);
+
 	/* Free all persistent grant pages */
 	if (!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts))
-		free_persistent_gnts(&blkif->persistent_gnts,
+		free_persistent_gnts(blkif, &blkif->persistent_gnts,
 			blkif->persistent_gnt_c);
 
 	BUG_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts));
@@ -441,148 +645,98 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-struct seg_buf {
-	unsigned int offset;
-	unsigned int nsec;
-};
 /*
  * Unmap the grant references, and also remove the M2P over-rides
  * used in the 'pending_req'.
  */
-static void xen_blkbk_unmap(struct pending_req *req)
+static void xen_blkbk_unmap(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
+                            struct grant_page *pages[],
+                            int num)
 {
 	struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref unmap[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
-	struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct page *unmap_pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
 	unsigned int i, invcount = 0;
-	grant_handle_t handle;
 	int ret;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < req->nr_pages; i++) {
-		if (!test_bit(i, req->unmap_seg))
+	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
+		if (pages[i]->persistent_gnt != NULL) {
+			put_persistent_gnt(blkif, pages[i]->persistent_gnt);
 			continue;
-		handle = pending_handle(req, i);
-		if (handle == BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE)
+		}
+		if (pages[i]->handle == BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE)
 			continue;
-		gnttab_set_unmap_op(&unmap[invcount], vaddr(req, i),
-				    GNTMAP_host_map, handle);
-		pending_handle(req, i) = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
-		pages[invcount] = virt_to_page(vaddr(req, i));
-		invcount++;
+		unmap_pages[invcount] = pages[i]->page;
+		gnttab_set_unmap_op(&unmap[invcount], vaddr(pages[i]->page),
+				    GNTMAP_host_map, pages[i]->handle);
+		pages[i]->handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
+		if (++invcount == BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST) {
+			ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, unmap_pages,
+			                        invcount);
+			BUG_ON(ret);
+			put_free_pages(blkif, unmap_pages, invcount);
+			invcount = 0;
+		}
+	}
+	if (invcount) {
+		ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, unmap_pages, invcount);
+		BUG_ON(ret);
+		put_free_pages(blkif, unmap_pages, invcount);
 	}
-
-	ret = gnttab_unmap_refs(unmap, NULL, pages, invcount);
-	BUG_ON(ret);
 }
 
-static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
-			 struct pending_req *pending_req,
-			 struct seg_buf seg[],
-			 struct page *pages[])
+static int xen_blkbk_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
+			 struct grant_page *pages[],
+			 int num, bool ro)
 {
 	struct gnttab_map_grant_ref map[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
-	struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnts[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
 	struct page *pages_to_gnt[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
 	struct persistent_gnt *persistent_gnt = NULL;
-	struct xen_blkif *blkif = pending_req->blkif;
 	phys_addr_t addr = 0;
-	int i, j;
-	bool new_map;
-	int nseg = req->u.rw.nr_segments;
+	int i, seg_idx, new_map_idx;
 	int segs_to_map = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
+	int last_map = 0, map_until = 0;
 	int use_persistent_gnts;
 
 	use_persistent_gnts = (blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent);
 
-	BUG_ON(blkif->persistent_gnt_c >
-		   max_mapped_grant_pages(pending_req->blkif->blk_protocol));
-
 	/*
 	 * Fill out preq.nr_sects with proper amount of sectors, and setup
 	 * assign map[..] with the PFN of the page in our domain with the
 	 * corresponding grant reference for each page.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
+again:
+	for (i = map_until; i < num; i++) {
 		uint32_t flags;
 
 		if (use_persistent_gnts)
 			persistent_gnt = get_persistent_gnt(
-				&blkif->persistent_gnts,
-				req->u.rw.seg[i].gref);
+				blkif,
+				pages[i]->gref);
 
 		if (persistent_gnt) {
 			/*
 			 * We are using persistent grants and
 			 * the grant is already mapped
 			 */
-			new_map = false;
-		} else if (use_persistent_gnts &&
-			   blkif->persistent_gnt_c <
-			   max_mapped_grant_pages(blkif->blk_protocol)) {
-			/*
-			 * We are using persistent grants, the grant is
-			 * not mapped but we have room for it
-			 */
-			new_map = true;
-			persistent_gnt = kmalloc(
-				sizeof(struct persistent_gnt),
-				GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (!persistent_gnt)
-				return -ENOMEM;
-			if (alloc_xenballooned_pages(1, &persistent_gnt->page,
-			    false)) {
-				kfree(persistent_gnt);
-				return -ENOMEM;
-			}
-			persistent_gnt->gnt = req->u.rw.seg[i].gref;
-			persistent_gnt->handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
-
-			pages_to_gnt[segs_to_map] =
-				persistent_gnt->page;
-			addr = (unsigned long) pfn_to_kaddr(
-				page_to_pfn(persistent_gnt->page));
-
-			add_persistent_gnt(&blkif->persistent_gnts,
-				persistent_gnt);
-			blkif->persistent_gnt_c++;
-			pr_debug(DRV_PFX " grant %u added to the tree of persistent grants, using %u/%u\n",
-				 persistent_gnt->gnt, blkif->persistent_gnt_c,
-				 max_mapped_grant_pages(blkif->blk_protocol));
+			pages[i]->page = persistent_gnt->page;
+			pages[i]->persistent_gnt = persistent_gnt;
 		} else {
-			/*
-			 * We are either using persistent grants and
-			 * hit the maximum limit of grants mapped,
-			 * or we are not using persistent grants.
-			 */
-			if (use_persistent_gnts &&
-				!blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants) {
-				blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 1;
-				pr_alert(DRV_PFX " domain %u, device %#x is using maximum number of persistent grants\n",
-					 blkif->domid, blkif->vbd.handle);
-			}
-			new_map = true;
-			pages[i] = blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, i);
-			addr = vaddr(pending_req, i);
-			pages_to_gnt[segs_to_map] =
-				blkbk->pending_page(pending_req, i);
-		}
-
-		if (persistent_gnt) {
-			pages[i] = persistent_gnt->page;
-			persistent_gnts[i] = persistent_gnt;
-		} else {
-			persistent_gnts[i] = NULL;
-		}
-
-		if (new_map) {
+			if (get_free_page(blkif, &pages[i]->page))
+				goto out_of_memory;
+			addr = vaddr(pages[i]->page);
+			pages_to_gnt[segs_to_map] = pages[i]->page;
+			pages[i]->persistent_gnt = NULL;
 			flags = GNTMAP_host_map;
-			if (!persistent_gnt &&
-			    (pending_req->operation != BLKIF_OP_READ))
+			if (!use_persistent_gnts && ro)
 				flags |= GNTMAP_readonly;
 			gnttab_set_map_op(&map[segs_to_map++], addr,
-					  flags, req->u.rw.seg[i].gref,
+					  flags, pages[i]->gref,
 					  blkif->domid);
 		}
+		map_until = i + 1;
+		if (segs_to_map == BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST)
+			break;
 	}
 
 	if (segs_to_map) {
@@ -595,49 +749,133 @@ static int xen_blkbk_map(struct blkif_request *req,
 	 * so that when we access vaddr(pending_req,i) it has the contents of
 	 * the page from the other domain.
 	 */
-	bitmap_zero(pending_req->unmap_seg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
-	for (i = 0, j = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
-		if (!persistent_gnts[i] ||
-		    persistent_gnts[i]->handle == BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE) {
+	for (seg_idx = last_map, new_map_idx = 0; seg_idx < map_until; seg_idx++) {
+		if (!pages[seg_idx]->persistent_gnt) {
 			/* This is a newly mapped grant */
-			BUG_ON(j >= segs_to_map);
-			if (unlikely(map[j].status != 0)) {
+			BUG_ON(new_map_idx >= segs_to_map);
+			if (unlikely(map[new_map_idx].status != 0)) {
 				pr_debug(DRV_PFX "invalid buffer -- could not remap it\n");
-				map[j].handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
+				pages[seg_idx]->handle = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
 				ret |= 1;
-				if (persistent_gnts[i]) {
-					rb_erase(&persistent_gnts[i]->node,
-						 &blkif->persistent_gnts);
-					blkif->persistent_gnt_c--;
-					kfree(persistent_gnts[i]);
-					persistent_gnts[i] = NULL;
-				}
+				goto next;
 			}
+			pages[seg_idx]->handle = map[new_map_idx].handle;
+		} else {
+			continue;
 		}
-		if (persistent_gnts[i]) {
-			if (persistent_gnts[i]->handle ==
-			    BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE) {
+		if (use_persistent_gnts &&
+		    blkif->persistent_gnt_c < xen_blkif_max_pgrants) {
+			/*
+			 * We are using persistent grants, the grant is
+			 * not mapped but we might have room for it.
+			 */
+			persistent_gnt = kmalloc(sizeof(struct persistent_gnt),
+				                 GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!persistent_gnt) {
 				/*
-				 * If this is a new persistent grant
-				 * save the handler
+				 * If we don't have enough memory to
+				 * allocate the persistent_gnt struct
+				 * map this grant non-persistenly
 				 */
-				persistent_gnts[i]->handle = map[j++].handle;
+				goto next;
 			}
-			pending_handle(pending_req, i) =
-				persistent_gnts[i]->handle;
+			persistent_gnt->gnt = map[new_map_idx].ref;
+			persistent_gnt->handle = map[new_map_idx].handle;
+			persistent_gnt->page = pages[seg_idx]->page;
+			if (add_persistent_gnt(blkif,
+			                       persistent_gnt)) {
+				kfree(persistent_gnt);
+				persistent_gnt = NULL;
+				goto next;
+			}
+			pages[seg_idx]->persistent_gnt = persistent_gnt;
+			pr_debug(DRV_PFX " grant %u added to the tree of persistent grants, using %u/%u\n",
+				 persistent_gnt->gnt, blkif->persistent_gnt_c,
+				 xen_blkif_max_pgrants);
+			goto next;
+		}
+		if (use_persistent_gnts && !blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants) {
+			blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 1;
+			pr_debug(DRV_PFX " domain %u, device %#x is using maximum number of persistent grants\n",
+			         blkif->domid, blkif->vbd.handle);
+		}
+		/*
+		 * We could not map this grant persistently, so use it as
+		 * a non-persistent grant.
+		 */
+next:
+		new_map_idx++;
+	}
+	segs_to_map = 0;
+	last_map = map_until;
+	if (map_until != num)
+		goto again;
 
-			if (ret)
-				continue;
-		} else {
-			pending_handle(pending_req, i) = map[j++].handle;
-			bitmap_set(pending_req->unmap_seg, i, 1);
+	return ret;
+
+out_of_memory:
+	pr_alert(DRV_PFX "%s: out of memory\n", __func__);
+	put_free_pages(blkif, pages_to_gnt, segs_to_map);
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static int xen_blkbk_map_seg(struct pending_req *pending_req)
+{
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = xen_blkbk_map(pending_req->blkif, pending_req->segments,
+			   pending_req->nr_pages,
+	                   (pending_req->operation != BLKIF_OP_READ));
+
+	return rc;
+}
 
-			if (ret)
-				continue;
+static int xen_blkbk_parse_indirect(struct blkif_request *req,
+				    struct pending_req *pending_req,
+				    struct seg_buf seg[],
+				    struct phys_req *preq)
+{
+	struct grant_page **pages = pending_req->indirect_pages;
+	struct xen_blkif *blkif = pending_req->blkif;
+	int indirect_grefs, rc, n, nseg, i;
+	struct blkif_request_segment_aligned *segments = NULL;
+
+	nseg = pending_req->nr_pages;
+	indirect_grefs = INDIRECT_PAGES(nseg);
+	BUG_ON(indirect_grefs > BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < indirect_grefs; i++)
+		pages[i]->gref = req->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i];
+
+	rc = xen_blkbk_map(blkif, pages, indirect_grefs, true);
+	if (rc)
+		goto unmap;
+
+	for (n = 0, i = 0; n < nseg; n++) {
+		if ((n % SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME) == 0) {
+			/* Map indirect segments */
+			if (segments)
+				kunmap_atomic(segments);
+			segments = kmap_atomic(pages[n/SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME]->page);
+		}
+		i = n % SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME;
+		pending_req->segments[n]->gref = segments[i].gref;
+		seg[n].nsec = segments[i].last_sect -
+			segments[i].first_sect + 1;
+		seg[n].offset = (segments[i].first_sect << 9);
+		if ((segments[i].last_sect >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 9)) ||
+		    (segments[i].last_sect < segments[i].first_sect)) {
+			rc = -EINVAL;
+			goto unmap;
 		}
-		seg[i].offset = (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
+		preq->nr_sects += seg[n].nsec;
 	}
-	return ret;
+
+unmap:
+	if (segments)
+		kunmap_atomic(segments);
+	xen_blkbk_unmap(blkif, pages, indirect_grefs);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
@@ -647,7 +885,18 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	int status = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
 	struct block_device *bdev = blkif->vbd.bdev;
 	unsigned long secure;
+	struct phys_req preq;
+
+	preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number;
+	preq.nr_sects      = req->u.discard.nr_sectors;
 
+	err = xen_vbd_translate(&preq, blkif, WRITE);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_warn(DRV_PFX "access denied: DISCARD [%llu->%llu] on dev=%04x\n",
+			preq.sector_number,
+			preq.sector_number + preq.nr_sects, blkif->vbd.pdevice);
+		goto fail_response;
+	}
 	blkif->st_ds_req++;
 
 	xen_blkif_get(blkif);
@@ -658,7 +907,7 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, req->u.discard.sector_number,
 				   req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
 				   GFP_KERNEL, secure);
-
+fail_response:
 	if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
 		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "discard op failed, not supported\n");
 		status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -674,7 +923,7 @@ static int dispatch_other_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 			     struct blkif_request *req,
 			     struct pending_req *pending_req)
 {
-	free_req(pending_req);
+	free_req(blkif, pending_req);
 	make_response(blkif, req->u.other.id, req->operation,
 		      BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP);
 	return -EIO;
@@ -726,7 +975,9 @@ static void __end_block_io_op(struct pending_req *pending_req, int error)
 	 * the proper response on the ring.
 	 */
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&pending_req->pendcnt)) {
-		xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
+		xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req->blkif,
+		                pending_req->segments,
+		                pending_req->nr_pages);
 		make_response(pending_req->blkif, pending_req->id,
 			      pending_req->operation, pending_req->status);
 		xen_blkif_put(pending_req->blkif);
@@ -734,7 +985,7 @@ static void __end_block_io_op(struct pending_req *pending_req, int error)
 			if (atomic_read(&pending_req->blkif->drain))
 				complete(&pending_req->blkif->drain_complete);
 		}
-		free_req(pending_req);
+		free_req(pending_req->blkif, pending_req);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -767,6 +1018,12 @@ __do_block_io_op(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 	rp = blk_rings->common.sring->req_prod;
 	rmb(); /* Ensure we see queued requests up to 'rp'. */
 
+	if (RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW(&blk_rings->common, rp)) {
+		rc = blk_rings->common.rsp_prod_pvt;
+		pr_warn(DRV_PFX "Frontend provided bogus ring requests (%d - %d = %d). Halting ring processing on dev=%04x\n",
+			rp, rc, rp - rc, blkif->vbd.pdevice);
+		return -EACCES;
+	}
 	while (rc != rp) {
 
 		if (RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW(&blk_rings->common, rc))
@@ -777,7 +1034,7 @@ __do_block_io_op(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 			break;
 		}
 
-		pending_req = alloc_req();
+		pending_req = alloc_req(blkif);
 		if (NULL == pending_req) {
 			blkif->st_oo_req++;
 			more_to_do = 1;
@@ -807,11 +1064,12 @@ __do_block_io_op(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 		case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
 		case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
 		case BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE:
+		case BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT:
 			if (dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif, &req, pending_req))
 				goto done;
 			break;
 		case BLKIF_OP_DISCARD:
-			free_req(pending_req);
+			free_req(blkif, pending_req);
 			if (dispatch_discard_io(blkif, &req))
 				goto done;
 			break;
@@ -853,17 +1111,28 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 				struct pending_req *pending_req)
 {
 	struct phys_req preq;
-	struct seg_buf seg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct seg_buf *seg = pending_req->seg;
 	unsigned int nseg;
 	struct bio *bio = NULL;
-	struct bio *biolist[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct bio **biolist = pending_req->biolist;
 	int i, nbio = 0;
 	int operation;
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 	bool drain = false;
-	struct page *pages[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct grant_page **pages = pending_req->segments;
+	unsigned short req_operation;
+
+	req_operation = req->operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT ?
+			req->u.indirect.indirect_op : req->operation;
+	if ((req->operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) &&
+	    (req_operation != BLKIF_OP_READ) &&
+	    (req_operation != BLKIF_OP_WRITE)) {
+		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Invalid indirect operation (%u)\n",
+			 req_operation);
+		goto fail_response;
+	}
 
-	switch (req->operation) {
+	switch (req_operation) {
 	case BLKIF_OP_READ:
 		blkif->st_rd_req++;
 		operation = READ;
@@ -885,33 +1154,47 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	}
 
 	/* Check that the number of segments is sane. */
-	nseg = req->u.rw.nr_segments;
+	nseg = req->operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT ?
+	       req->u.indirect.nr_segments : req->u.rw.nr_segments;
 
 	if (unlikely(nseg == 0 && operation != WRITE_FLUSH) ||
-	    unlikely(nseg > BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST)) {
+	    unlikely((req->operation != BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) &&
+		     (nseg > BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST)) ||
+	    unlikely((req->operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) &&
+		     (nseg > MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS))) {
 		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Bad number of segments in request (%d)\n",
 			 nseg);
 		/* Haven't submitted any bio's yet. */
 		goto fail_response;
 	}
 
-	preq.sector_number = req->u.rw.sector_number;
 	preq.nr_sects      = 0;
 
 	pending_req->blkif     = blkif;
 	pending_req->id        = req->u.rw.id;
-	pending_req->operation = req->operation;
+	pending_req->operation = req_operation;
 	pending_req->status    = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
 	pending_req->nr_pages  = nseg;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
-		seg[i].nsec = req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect -
-			req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect + 1;
-		if ((req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 9)) ||
-		    (req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect < req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect))
+	if (req->operation != BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) {
+		preq.dev               = req->u.rw.handle;
+		preq.sector_number     = req->u.rw.sector_number;
+		for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
+			pages[i]->gref = req->u.rw.seg[i].gref;
+			seg[i].nsec = req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect -
+				req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect + 1;
+			seg[i].offset = (req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect << 9);
+			if ((req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 9)) ||
+			    (req->u.rw.seg[i].last_sect <
+			     req->u.rw.seg[i].first_sect))
+				goto fail_response;
+			preq.nr_sects += seg[i].nsec;
+		}
+	} else {
+		preq.dev               = req->u.indirect.handle;
+		preq.sector_number     = req->u.indirect.sector_number;
+		if (xen_blkbk_parse_indirect(req, pending_req, seg, &preq))
 			goto fail_response;
-		preq.nr_sects += seg[i].nsec;
-
 	}
 
 	if (xen_vbd_translate(&preq, blkif, operation) != 0) {
@@ -948,7 +1231,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	 * the hypercall to unmap the grants - that is all done in
 	 * xen_blkbk_unmap.
 	 */
-	if (xen_blkbk_map(req, pending_req, seg, pages))
+	if (xen_blkbk_map_seg(pending_req))
 		goto fail_flush;
 
 	/*
@@ -960,11 +1243,12 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
 		while ((bio == NULL) ||
 		       (bio_add_page(bio,
-				     pages[i],
+				     pages[i]->page,
 				     seg[i].nsec << 9,
 				     seg[i].offset) == 0)) {
 
-			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nseg-i);
+			int nr_iovecs = min_t(int, (nseg-i), BIO_MAX_PAGES);
+			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_iovecs);
 			if (unlikely(bio == NULL))
 				goto fail_put_bio;
 
@@ -1009,11 +1293,12 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	return 0;
 
  fail_flush:
-	xen_blkbk_unmap(pending_req);
+	xen_blkbk_unmap(blkif, pending_req->segments,
+	                pending_req->nr_pages);
  fail_response:
 	/* Haven't submitted any bio's yet. */
-	make_response(blkif, req->u.rw.id, req->operation, BLKIF_RSP_ERROR);
-	free_req(pending_req);
+	make_response(blkif, req->u.rw.id, req_operation, BLKIF_RSP_ERROR);
+	free_req(blkif, pending_req);
 	msleep(1); /* back off a bit */
 	return -EIO;
 
@@ -1070,73 +1355,20 @@ static void make_response(struct xen_blkif *blkif, u64 id,
 
 static int __init xen_blkif_init(void)
 {
-	int i, mmap_pages;
 	int rc = 0;
 
 	if (!xen_domain())
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	blkbk = kzalloc(sizeof(struct xen_blkbk), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!blkbk) {
-		pr_alert(DRV_PFX "%s: out of memory!\n", __func__);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	mmap_pages = xen_blkif_reqs * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
-
-	blkbk->pending_reqs          = kzalloc(sizeof(blkbk->pending_reqs[0]) *
-					xen_blkif_reqs, GFP_KERNEL);
-	blkbk->pending_grant_handles = kmalloc(sizeof(blkbk->pending_grant_handles[0]) *
-					mmap_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
-	blkbk->pending_pages         = kzalloc(sizeof(blkbk->pending_pages[0]) *
-					mmap_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
-
-	if (!blkbk->pending_reqs || !blkbk->pending_grant_handles ||
-	    !blkbk->pending_pages) {
-		rc = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out_of_memory;
-	}
-
-	for (i = 0; i < mmap_pages; i++) {
-		blkbk->pending_grant_handles[i] = BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE;
-		blkbk->pending_pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (blkbk->pending_pages[i] == NULL) {
-			rc = -ENOMEM;
-			goto out_of_memory;
-		}
-	}
 	rc = xen_blkif_interface_init();
 	if (rc)
 		goto failed_init;
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkbk->pending_free);
-	spin_lock_init(&blkbk->pending_free_lock);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&blkbk->pending_free_wq);
-
-	for (i = 0; i < xen_blkif_reqs; i++)
-		list_add_tail(&blkbk->pending_reqs[i].free_list,
-			      &blkbk->pending_free);
-
 	rc = xen_blkif_xenbus_init();
 	if (rc)
 		goto failed_init;
 
-	return 0;
-
- out_of_memory:
-	pr_alert(DRV_PFX "%s: out of memory\n", __func__);
  failed_init:
-	kfree(blkbk->pending_reqs);
-	kfree(blkbk->pending_grant_handles);
-	if (blkbk->pending_pages) {
-		for (i = 0; i < mmap_pages; i++) {
-			if (blkbk->pending_pages[i])
-				__free_page(blkbk->pending_pages[i]);
-		}
-		kfree(blkbk->pending_pages);
-	}
-	kfree(blkbk);
-	blkbk = NULL;
 	return rc;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index 60103e2517b..8d8807563d9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -50,6 +50,19 @@
 		 __func__, __LINE__, ##args)
 
 
+/*
+ * This is the maximum number of segments that would be allowed in indirect
+ * requests. This value will also be passed to the frontend.
+ */
+#define MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS 256
+
+#define SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME \
+	(PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct blkif_request_segment_aligned))
+#define MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES \
+	((MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS + SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME - 1)/SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME)
+#define INDIRECT_PAGES(_segs) \
+	((_segs + SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME - 1)/SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME)
+
 /* Not a real protocol.  Used to generate ring structs which contain
  * the elements common to all protocols only.  This way we get a
  * compiler-checkable way to use common struct elements, so we can
@@ -83,12 +96,31 @@ struct blkif_x86_32_request_other {
 	uint64_t       id;           /* private guest value, echoed in resp  */
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
+struct blkif_x86_32_request_indirect {
+	uint8_t        indirect_op;
+	uint16_t       nr_segments;
+	uint64_t       id;
+	blkif_sector_t sector_number;
+	blkif_vdev_t   handle;
+	uint16_t       _pad1;
+	grant_ref_t    indirect_grefs[BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST];
+	/*
+	 * The maximum number of indirect segments (and pages) that will
+	 * be used is determined by MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS, this value
+	 * is also exported to the guest (via xenstore
+	 * feature-max-indirect-segments entry), so the frontend knows how
+	 * many indirect segments the backend supports.
+	 */
+	uint64_t       _pad2;        /* make it 64 byte aligned */
+} __attribute__((__packed__));
+
 struct blkif_x86_32_request {
 	uint8_t        operation;    /* BLKIF_OP_???                         */
 	union {
 		struct blkif_x86_32_request_rw rw;
 		struct blkif_x86_32_request_discard discard;
 		struct blkif_x86_32_request_other other;
+		struct blkif_x86_32_request_indirect indirect;
 	} u;
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
@@ -127,12 +159,32 @@ struct blkif_x86_64_request_other {
 	uint64_t       id;           /* private guest value, echoed in resp  */
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
+struct blkif_x86_64_request_indirect {
+	uint8_t        indirect_op;
+	uint16_t       nr_segments;
+	uint32_t       _pad1;        /* offsetof(blkif_..,u.indirect.id)==8   */
+	uint64_t       id;
+	blkif_sector_t sector_number;
+	blkif_vdev_t   handle;
+	uint16_t       _pad2;
+	grant_ref_t    indirect_grefs[BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST];
+	/*
+	 * The maximum number of indirect segments (and pages) that will
+	 * be used is determined by MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS, this value
+	 * is also exported to the guest (via xenstore
+	 * feature-max-indirect-segments entry), so the frontend knows how
+	 * many indirect segments the backend supports.
+	 */
+	uint32_t       _pad3;        /* make it 64 byte aligned */
+} __attribute__((__packed__));
+
 struct blkif_x86_64_request {
 	uint8_t        operation;    /* BLKIF_OP_???                         */
 	union {
 		struct blkif_x86_64_request_rw rw;
 		struct blkif_x86_64_request_discard discard;
 		struct blkif_x86_64_request_other other;
+		struct blkif_x86_64_request_indirect indirect;
 	} u;
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
@@ -182,12 +234,26 @@ struct xen_vbd {
 
 struct backend_info;
 
+/* Number of available flags */
+#define PERSISTENT_GNT_FLAGS_SIZE	2
+/* This persistent grant is currently in use */
+#define PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE		0
+/*
+ * This persistent grant has been used, this flag is set when we remove the
+ * PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE, to know that this grant has been used recently.
+ */
+#define PERSISTENT_GNT_WAS_ACTIVE	1
+
+/* Number of requests that we can fit in a ring */
+#define XEN_BLKIF_REQS			32
 
 struct persistent_gnt {
 	struct page *page;
 	grant_ref_t gnt;
 	grant_handle_t handle;
+	DECLARE_BITMAP(flags, PERSISTENT_GNT_FLAGS_SIZE);
 	struct rb_node node;
+	struct list_head remove_node;
 };
 
 struct xen_blkif {
@@ -219,6 +285,23 @@ struct xen_blkif {
 	/* tree to store persistent grants */
 	struct rb_root		persistent_gnts;
 	unsigned int		persistent_gnt_c;
+	atomic_t		persistent_gnt_in_use;
+	unsigned long           next_lru;
+
+	/* used by the kworker that offload work from the persistent purge */
+	struct list_head	persistent_purge_list;
+	struct work_struct	persistent_purge_work;
+
+	/* buffer of free pages to map grant refs */
+	spinlock_t		free_pages_lock;
+	int			free_pages_num;
+	struct list_head	free_pages;
+
+	/* List of all 'pending_req' available */
+	struct list_head	pending_free;
+	/* And its spinlock. */
+	spinlock_t		pending_free_lock;
+	wait_queue_head_t	pending_free_wq;
 
 	/* statistics */
 	unsigned long		st_print;
@@ -231,6 +314,41 @@ struct xen_blkif {
 	unsigned long long			st_wr_sect;
 
 	wait_queue_head_t	waiting_to_free;
+	/* Thread shutdown wait queue. */
+	wait_queue_head_t	shutdown_wq;
+};
+
+struct seg_buf {
+	unsigned long offset;
+	unsigned int nsec;
+};
+
+struct grant_page {
+	struct page 		*page;
+	struct persistent_gnt	*persistent_gnt;
+	grant_handle_t		handle;
+	grant_ref_t		gref;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Each outstanding request that we've passed to the lower device layers has a
+ * 'pending_req' allocated to it. Each buffer_head that completes decrements
+ * the pendcnt towards zero. When it hits zero, the specified domain has a
+ * response queued for it, with the saved 'id' passed back.
+ */
+struct pending_req {
+	struct xen_blkif	*blkif;
+	u64			id;
+	int			nr_pages;
+	atomic_t		pendcnt;
+	unsigned short		operation;
+	int			status;
+	struct list_head	free_list;
+	struct grant_page	*segments[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
+	/* Indirect descriptors */
+	struct grant_page	*indirect_pages[MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES];
+	struct seg_buf		seg[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
+	struct bio		*biolist[MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS];
 };
 
 
@@ -257,6 +375,7 @@ int xen_blkif_xenbus_init(void);
 
 irqreturn_t xen_blkif_be_int(int irq, void *dev_id);
 int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg);
+int xen_blkif_purge_persistent(void *arg);
 
 int xen_blkbk_flush_diskcache(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
 			      struct backend_info *be, int state);
@@ -268,7 +387,7 @@ struct xenbus_device *xen_blkbk_xenbus(struct backend_info *be);
 static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
 					struct blkif_x86_32_request *src)
 {
-	int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
+	int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
 	dst->operation = src->operation;
 	switch (src->operation) {
 	case BLKIF_OP_READ:
@@ -291,6 +410,18 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
 		dst->u.discard.sector_number = src->u.discard.sector_number;
 		dst->u.discard.nr_sectors = src->u.discard.nr_sectors;
 		break;
+	case BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT:
+		dst->u.indirect.indirect_op = src->u.indirect.indirect_op;
+		dst->u.indirect.nr_segments = src->u.indirect.nr_segments;
+		dst->u.indirect.handle = src->u.indirect.handle;
+		dst->u.indirect.id = src->u.indirect.id;
+		dst->u.indirect.sector_number = src->u.indirect.sector_number;
+		barrier();
+		j = min(MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES, INDIRECT_PAGES(dst->u.indirect.nr_segments));
+		for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
+			dst->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i] =
+				src->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i];
+		break;
 	default:
 		/*
 		 * Don't know how to translate this op. Only get the
@@ -304,7 +435,7 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_32_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
 static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
 					struct blkif_x86_64_request *src)
 {
-	int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
+	int i, n = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, j;
 	dst->operation = src->operation;
 	switch (src->operation) {
 	case BLKIF_OP_READ:
@@ -327,6 +458,18 @@ static inline void blkif_get_x86_64_req(struct blkif_request *dst,
 		dst->u.discard.sector_number = src->u.discard.sector_number;
 		dst->u.discard.nr_sectors = src->u.discard.nr_sectors;
 		break;
+	case BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT:
+		dst->u.indirect.indirect_op = src->u.indirect.indirect_op;
+		dst->u.indirect.nr_segments = src->u.indirect.nr_segments;
+		dst->u.indirect.handle = src->u.indirect.handle;
+		dst->u.indirect.id = src->u.indirect.id;
+		dst->u.indirect.sector_number = src->u.indirect.sector_number;
+		barrier();
+		j = min(MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES, INDIRECT_PAGES(dst->u.indirect.nr_segments));
+		for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
+			dst->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i] =
+				src->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[i];
+		break;
 	default:
 		/*
 		 * Don't know how to translate this op. Only get the
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index 8bfd1bcf95e..2e5b69d612a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -98,12 +98,17 @@ static void xen_update_blkif_status(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 		err = PTR_ERR(blkif->xenblkd);
 		blkif->xenblkd = NULL;
 		xenbus_dev_error(blkif->be->dev, err, "start xenblkd");
+		return;
 	}
 }
 
 static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
 {
 	struct xen_blkif *blkif;
+	struct pending_req *req, *n;
+	int i, j;
+
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES > BLKIF_MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES_PER_REQUEST);
 
 	blkif = kmem_cache_zalloc(xen_blkif_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!blkif)
@@ -118,8 +123,57 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
 	blkif->st_print = jiffies;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&blkif->waiting_to_free);
 	blkif->persistent_gnts.rb_node = NULL;
+	spin_lock_init(&blkif->free_pages_lock);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->free_pages);
+	blkif->free_pages_num = 0;
+	atomic_set(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use, 0);
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->pending_free);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < XEN_BLKIF_REQS; i++) {
+		req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!req)
+			goto fail;
+		list_add_tail(&req->free_list,
+		              &blkif->pending_free);
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS; j++) {
+			req->segments[j] = kzalloc(sizeof(*req->segments[0]),
+			                           GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!req->segments[j])
+				goto fail;
+		}
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES; j++) {
+			req->indirect_pages[j] = kzalloc(sizeof(*req->indirect_pages[0]),
+			                                 GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!req->indirect_pages[j])
+				goto fail;
+		}
+	}
+	spin_lock_init(&blkif->pending_free_lock);
+	init_waitqueue_head(&blkif->pending_free_wq);
+	init_waitqueue_head(&blkif->shutdown_wq);
 
 	return blkif;
+
+fail:
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(req, n, &blkif->pending_free, free_list) {
+		list_del(&req->free_list);
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS; j++) {
+			if (!req->segments[j])
+				break;
+			kfree(req->segments[j]);
+		}
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES; j++) {
+			if (!req->indirect_pages[j])
+				break;
+			kfree(req->indirect_pages[j]);
+		}
+		kfree(req);
+	}
+
+	kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif);
+
+	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
 static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, unsigned long shared_page,
@@ -178,6 +232,7 @@ static void xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 {
 	if (blkif->xenblkd) {
 		kthread_stop(blkif->xenblkd);
+		wake_up(&blkif->shutdown_wq);
 		blkif->xenblkd = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -198,8 +253,28 @@ static void xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 
 static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
 {
+	struct pending_req *req, *n;
+	int i = 0, j;
+
 	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&blkif->refcnt))
 		BUG();
+
+	/* Check that there is no request in use */
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(req, n, &blkif->pending_free, free_list) {
+		list_del(&req->free_list);
+
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS; j++)
+			kfree(req->segments[j]);
+
+		for (j = 0; j < MAX_INDIRECT_PAGES; j++)
+			kfree(req->indirect_pages[j]);
+
+		kfree(req);
+		i++;
+	}
+
+	WARN_ON(i != XEN_BLKIF_REQS);
+
 	kmem_cache_free(xen_blkif_cachep, blkif);
 }
 
@@ -678,6 +753,11 @@ again:
 				 dev->nodename);
 		goto abort;
 	}
+	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-max-indirect-segments", "%u",
+			    MAX_INDIRECT_SEGMENTS);
+	if (err)
+		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "writing %s/feature-max-indirect-segments (%d)",
+			 dev->nodename, err);
 
 	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "sectors", "%llu",
 			    (unsigned long long)vbd_sz(&be->blkif->vbd));
@@ -704,6 +784,11 @@ again:
 				 dev->nodename);
 		goto abort;
 	}
+	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "physical-sector-size", "%u",
+			    bdev_physical_block_size(be->blkif->vbd.bdev));
+	if (err)
+		xenbus_dev_error(dev, err, "writing %s/physical-sector-size",
+				 dev->nodename);
 
 	err = xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 0);
 	if (err == -EAGAIN)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index d89ef86220f..a4660bbee8a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -74,12 +74,30 @@ struct grant {
 struct blk_shadow {
 	struct blkif_request req;
 	struct request *request;
-	struct grant *grants_used[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
+	struct grant **grants_used;
+	struct grant **indirect_grants;
+	struct scatterlist *sg;
+};
+
+struct split_bio {
+	struct bio *bio;
+	atomic_t pending;
+	int err;
 };
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(blkfront_mutex);
 static const struct block_device_operations xlvbd_block_fops;
 
+/*
+ * Maximum number of segments in indirect requests, the actual value used by
+ * the frontend driver is the minimum of this value and the value provided
+ * by the backend driver.
+ */
+
+static unsigned int xen_blkif_max_segments = 32;
+module_param_named(max, xen_blkif_max_segments, int, S_IRUGO);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max, "Maximum amount of segments in indirect requests (default is 32)");
+
 #define BLK_RING_SIZE __CONST_RING_SIZE(blkif, PAGE_SIZE)
 
 /*
@@ -98,7 +116,6 @@ struct blkfront_info
 	enum blkif_state connected;
 	int ring_ref;
 	struct blkif_front_ring ring;
-	struct scatterlist sg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
 	unsigned int evtchn, irq;
 	struct request_queue *rq;
 	struct work_struct work;
@@ -114,6 +131,7 @@ struct blkfront_info
 	unsigned int discard_granularity;
 	unsigned int discard_alignment;
 	unsigned int feature_persistent:1;
+	unsigned int max_indirect_segments;
 	int is_ready;
 };
 
@@ -142,6 +160,13 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(minor_lock);
 
 #define DEV_NAME	"xvd"	/* name in /dev */
 
+#define SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME \
+	(PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct blkif_request_segment_aligned))
+#define INDIRECT_GREFS(_segs) \
+	((_segs + SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME - 1)/SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME)
+
+static int blkfront_setup_indirect(struct blkfront_info *info);
+
 static int get_id_from_freelist(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
 	unsigned long free = info->shadow_free;
@@ -358,7 +383,8 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 	struct blkif_request *ring_req;
 	unsigned long id;
 	unsigned int fsect, lsect;
-	int i, ref;
+	int i, ref, n;
+	struct blkif_request_segment_aligned *segments = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Used to store if we are able to queue the request by just using
@@ -369,21 +395,27 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 	grant_ref_t gref_head;
 	struct grant *gnt_list_entry = NULL;
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
+	int nseg, max_grefs;
 
 	if (unlikely(info->connected != BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED))
 		return 1;
 
-	/* Check if we have enought grants to allocate a requests */
-	if (info->persistent_gnts_c < BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST) {
+	max_grefs = info->max_indirect_segments ?
+		    info->max_indirect_segments +
+		    INDIRECT_GREFS(info->max_indirect_segments) :
+		    BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
+
+	/* Check if we have enough grants to allocate a requests */
+	if (info->persistent_gnts_c < max_grefs) {
 		new_persistent_gnts = 1;
 		if (gnttab_alloc_grant_references(
-		    BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST - info->persistent_gnts_c,
+		    max_grefs - info->persistent_gnts_c,
 		    &gref_head) < 0) {
 			gnttab_request_free_callback(
 				&info->callback,
 				blkif_restart_queue_callback,
 				info,
-				BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
+				max_grefs);
 			return 1;
 		}
 	} else
@@ -394,42 +426,67 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 	id = get_id_from_freelist(info);
 	info->shadow[id].request = req;
 
-	ring_req->u.rw.id = id;
-	ring_req->u.rw.sector_number = (blkif_sector_t)blk_rq_pos(req);
-	ring_req->u.rw.handle = info->handle;
-
-	ring_req->operation = rq_data_dir(req) ?
-		BLKIF_OP_WRITE : BLKIF_OP_READ;
-
-	if (req->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) {
-		/*
-		 * Ideally we can do an unordered flush-to-disk. In case the
-		 * backend onlysupports barriers, use that. A barrier request
-		 * a superset of FUA, so we can implement it the same
-		 * way.  (It's also a FLUSH+FUA, since it is
-		 * guaranteed ordered WRT previous writes.)
-		 */
-		ring_req->operation = info->flush_op;
-	}
-
 	if (unlikely(req->cmd_flags & (REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE))) {
-		/* id, sector_number and handle are set above. */
 		ring_req->operation = BLKIF_OP_DISCARD;
 		ring_req->u.discard.nr_sectors = blk_rq_sectors(req);
+		ring_req->u.discard.id = id;
+		ring_req->u.discard.sector_number = (blkif_sector_t)blk_rq_pos(req);
 		if ((req->cmd_flags & REQ_SECURE) && info->feature_secdiscard)
 			ring_req->u.discard.flag = BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE;
 		else
 			ring_req->u.discard.flag = 0;
 	} else {
-		ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req,
-							   info->sg);
-		BUG_ON(ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments >
-		       BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
-
-		for_each_sg(info->sg, sg, ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments, i) {
+		BUG_ON(info->max_indirect_segments == 0 &&
+		       req->nr_phys_segments > BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
+		BUG_ON(info->max_indirect_segments &&
+		       req->nr_phys_segments > info->max_indirect_segments);
+		nseg = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, info->shadow[id].sg);
+		ring_req->u.rw.id = id;
+		if (nseg > BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST) {
+			/*
+			 * The indirect operation can only be a BLKIF_OP_READ or
+			 * BLKIF_OP_WRITE
+			 */
+			BUG_ON(req->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA));
+			ring_req->operation = BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT;
+			ring_req->u.indirect.indirect_op = rq_data_dir(req) ?
+				BLKIF_OP_WRITE : BLKIF_OP_READ;
+			ring_req->u.indirect.sector_number = (blkif_sector_t)blk_rq_pos(req);
+			ring_req->u.indirect.handle = info->handle;
+			ring_req->u.indirect.nr_segments = nseg;
+		} else {
+			ring_req->u.rw.sector_number = (blkif_sector_t)blk_rq_pos(req);
+			ring_req->u.rw.handle = info->handle;
+			ring_req->operation = rq_data_dir(req) ?
+				BLKIF_OP_WRITE : BLKIF_OP_READ;
+			if (req->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) {
+				/*
+				 * Ideally we can do an unordered flush-to-disk. In case the
+				 * backend onlysupports barriers, use that. A barrier request
+				 * a superset of FUA, so we can implement it the same
+				 * way.  (It's also a FLUSH+FUA, since it is
+				 * guaranteed ordered WRT previous writes.)
+				 */
+				ring_req->operation = info->flush_op;
+			}
+			ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments = nseg;
+		}
+		for_each_sg(info->shadow[id].sg, sg, nseg, i) {
 			fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
 			lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
 
+			if ((ring_req->operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) &&
+			    (i % SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME == 0)) {
+				if (segments)
+					kunmap_atomic(segments);
+
+				n = i / SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME;
+				gnt_list_entry = get_grant(&gref_head, info);
+				info->shadow[id].indirect_grants[n] = gnt_list_entry;
+				segments = kmap_atomic(pfn_to_page(gnt_list_entry->pfn));
+				ring_req->u.indirect.indirect_grefs[n] = gnt_list_entry->gref;
+			}
+
 			gnt_list_entry = get_grant(&gref_head, info);
 			ref = gnt_list_entry->gref;
 
@@ -441,8 +498,7 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 
 				BUG_ON(sg->offset + sg->length > PAGE_SIZE);
 
-				shared_data = kmap_atomic(
-					pfn_to_page(gnt_list_entry->pfn));
+				shared_data = kmap_atomic(pfn_to_page(gnt_list_entry->pfn));
 				bvec_data = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
 
 				/*
@@ -461,13 +517,23 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 				kunmap_atomic(bvec_data);
 				kunmap_atomic(shared_data);
 			}
-
-			ring_req->u.rw.seg[i] =
-					(struct blkif_request_segment) {
-						.gref       = ref,
-						.first_sect = fsect,
-						.last_sect  = lsect };
+			if (ring_req->operation != BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) {
+				ring_req->u.rw.seg[i] =
+						(struct blkif_request_segment) {
+							.gref       = ref,
+							.first_sect = fsect,
+							.last_sect  = lsect };
+			} else {
+				n = i % SEGS_PER_INDIRECT_FRAME;
+				segments[n] =
+					(struct blkif_request_segment_aligned) {
+							.gref       = ref,
+							.first_sect = fsect,
+							.last_sect  = lsect };
+			}
 		}
+		if (segments)
+			kunmap_atomic(segments);
 	}
 
 	info->ring.req_prod_pvt++;
@@ -542,7 +608,9 @@ wait:
 		flush_requests(info);
 }
 
-static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 sector_size)
+static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 sector_size,
+				unsigned int physical_sector_size,
+				unsigned int segments)
 {
 	struct request_queue *rq;
 	struct blkfront_info *info = gd->private_data;
@@ -564,14 +632,15 @@ static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 sector_size)
 
 	/* Hard sector size and max sectors impersonate the equiv. hardware. */
 	blk_queue_logical_block_size(rq, sector_size);
-	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(rq, 512);
+	blk_queue_physical_block_size(rq, physical_sector_size);
+	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(rq, (segments * PAGE_SIZE) / 512);
 
 	/* Each segment in a request is up to an aligned page in size. */
 	blk_queue_segment_boundary(rq, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
 	blk_queue_max_segment_size(rq, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	/* Ensure a merged request will fit in a single I/O ring slot. */
-	blk_queue_max_segments(rq, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
+	blk_queue_max_segments(rq, segments);
 
 	/* Make sure buffer addresses are sector-aligned. */
 	blk_queue_dma_alignment(rq, 511);
@@ -588,13 +657,16 @@ static int xlvbd_init_blk_queue(struct gendisk *gd, u16 sector_size)
 static void xlvbd_flush(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
 	blk_queue_flush(info->rq, info->feature_flush);
-	printk(KERN_INFO "blkfront: %s: %s: %s %s\n",
+	printk(KERN_INFO "blkfront: %s: %s: %s %s %s %s %s\n",
 	       info->gd->disk_name,
 	       info->flush_op == BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER ?
 		"barrier" : (info->flush_op == BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE ?
 		"flush diskcache" : "barrier or flush"),
-	       info->feature_flush ? "enabled" : "disabled",
-	       info->feature_persistent ? "using persistent grants" : "");
+	       info->feature_flush ? "enabled;" : "disabled;",
+	       "persistent grants:",
+	       info->feature_persistent ? "enabled;" : "disabled;",
+	       "indirect descriptors:",
+	       info->max_indirect_segments ? "enabled;" : "disabled;");
 }
 
 static int xen_translate_vdev(int vdevice, int *minor, unsigned int *offset)
@@ -667,7 +739,8 @@ static char *encode_disk_name(char *ptr, unsigned int n)
 
 static int xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(blkif_sector_t capacity,
 			       struct blkfront_info *info,
-			       u16 vdisk_info, u16 sector_size)
+			       u16 vdisk_info, u16 sector_size,
+			       unsigned int physical_sector_size)
 {
 	struct gendisk *gd;
 	int nr_minors = 1;
@@ -734,7 +807,9 @@ static int xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(blkif_sector_t capacity,
 	gd->driverfs_dev = &(info->xbdev->dev);
 	set_capacity(gd, capacity);
 
-	if (xlvbd_init_blk_queue(gd, sector_size)) {
+	if (xlvbd_init_blk_queue(gd, sector_size, physical_sector_size,
+				 info->max_indirect_segments ? :
+				 BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST)) {
 		del_gendisk(gd);
 		goto release;
 	}
@@ -818,6 +893,7 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 {
 	struct grant *persistent_gnt;
 	struct grant *n;
+	int i, j, segs;
 
 	/* Prevent new requests being issued until we fix things up. */
 	spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
@@ -843,6 +919,47 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 	}
 	BUG_ON(info->persistent_gnts_c != 0);
 
+	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++) {
+		/*
+		 * Clear persistent grants present in requests already
+		 * on the shared ring
+		 */
+		if (!info->shadow[i].request)
+			goto free_shadow;
+
+		segs = info->shadow[i].req.operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT ?
+		       info->shadow[i].req.u.indirect.nr_segments :
+		       info->shadow[i].req.u.rw.nr_segments;
+		for (j = 0; j < segs; j++) {
+			persistent_gnt = info->shadow[i].grants_used[j];
+			gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
+			__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
+			kfree(persistent_gnt);
+		}
+
+		if (info->shadow[i].req.operation != BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT)
+			/*
+			 * If this is not an indirect operation don't try to
+			 * free indirect segments
+			 */
+			goto free_shadow;
+
+		for (j = 0; j < INDIRECT_GREFS(segs); j++) {
+			persistent_gnt = info->shadow[i].indirect_grants[j];
+			gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
+			__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
+			kfree(persistent_gnt);
+		}
+
+free_shadow:
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].grants_used);
+		info->shadow[i].grants_used = NULL;
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
+		info->shadow[i].indirect_grants = NULL;
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].sg);
+		info->shadow[i].sg = NULL;
+	}
+
 	/* No more gnttab callback work. */
 	gnttab_cancel_free_callback(&info->callback);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&info->io_lock);
@@ -867,12 +984,13 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, struct blkfront_info *info,
 			     struct blkif_response *bret)
 {
 	int i = 0;
-	struct bio_vec *bvec;
-	struct req_iterator iter;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	struct scatterlist *sg;
 	char *bvec_data;
 	void *shared_data;
-	unsigned int offset = 0;
+	int nseg;
+
+	nseg = s->req.operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT ?
+		s->req.u.indirect.nr_segments : s->req.u.rw.nr_segments;
 
 	if (bret->operation == BLKIF_OP_READ) {
 		/*
@@ -881,26 +999,29 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, struct blkfront_info *info,
 		 * than PAGE_SIZE, we have to keep track of the current offset,
 		 * to be sure we are copying the data from the right shared page.
 		 */
-		rq_for_each_segment(bvec, s->request, iter) {
-			BUG_ON((bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len) > PAGE_SIZE);
-			if (bvec->bv_offset < offset)
-				i++;
-			BUG_ON(i >= s->req.u.rw.nr_segments);
+		for_each_sg(s->sg, sg, nseg, i) {
+			BUG_ON(sg->offset + sg->length > PAGE_SIZE);
 			shared_data = kmap_atomic(
 				pfn_to_page(s->grants_used[i]->pfn));
-			bvec_data = bvec_kmap_irq(bvec, &flags);
-			memcpy(bvec_data, shared_data + bvec->bv_offset,
-				bvec->bv_len);
-			bvec_kunmap_irq(bvec_data, &flags);
+			bvec_data = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
+			memcpy(bvec_data   + sg->offset,
+			       shared_data + sg->offset,
+			       sg->length);
+			kunmap_atomic(bvec_data);
 			kunmap_atomic(shared_data);
-			offset = bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len;
 		}
 	}
 	/* Add the persistent grant into the list of free grants */
-	for (i = 0; i < s->req.u.rw.nr_segments; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < nseg; i++) {
 		list_add(&s->grants_used[i]->node, &info->persistent_gnts);
 		info->persistent_gnts_c++;
 	}
+	if (s->req.operation == BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) {
+		for (i = 0; i < INDIRECT_GREFS(nseg); i++) {
+			list_add(&s->indirect_grants[i]->node, &info->persistent_gnts);
+			info->persistent_gnts_c++;
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
@@ -1034,14 +1155,6 @@ static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	SHARED_RING_INIT(sring);
 	FRONT_RING_INIT(&info->ring, sring, PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	sg_init_table(info->sg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
-
-	/* Allocate memory for grants */
-	err = fill_grant_buffer(info, BLK_RING_SIZE *
-	                              BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
-	if (err)
-		goto fail;
-
 	err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, virt_to_mfn(info->ring.sring));
 	if (err < 0) {
 		free_page((unsigned long)sring);
@@ -1223,13 +1336,84 @@ static int blkfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This is a clone of md_trim_bio, used to split a bio into smaller ones
+ */
+static void trim_bio(struct bio *bio, int offset, int size)
+{
+	/* 'bio' is a cloned bio which we need to trim to match
+	 * the given offset and size.
+	 * This requires adjusting bi_sector, bi_size, and bi_io_vec
+	 */
+	int i;
+	struct bio_vec *bvec;
+	int sofar = 0;
+
+	size <<= 9;
+	if (offset == 0 && size == bio->bi_size)
+		return;
+
+	bio->bi_sector += offset;
+	bio->bi_size = size;
+	offset <<= 9;
+	clear_bit(BIO_SEG_VALID, &bio->bi_flags);
+
+	while (bio->bi_idx < bio->bi_vcnt &&
+	       bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_idx].bv_len <= offset) {
+		/* remove this whole bio_vec */
+		offset -= bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_idx].bv_len;
+		bio->bi_idx++;
+	}
+	if (bio->bi_idx < bio->bi_vcnt) {
+		bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_idx].bv_offset += offset;
+		bio->bi_io_vec[bio->bi_idx].bv_len -= offset;
+	}
+	/* avoid any complications with bi_idx being non-zero*/
+	if (bio->bi_idx) {
+		memmove(bio->bi_io_vec, bio->bi_io_vec+bio->bi_idx,
+			(bio->bi_vcnt - bio->bi_idx) * sizeof(struct bio_vec));
+		bio->bi_vcnt -= bio->bi_idx;
+		bio->bi_idx = 0;
+	}
+	/* Make sure vcnt and last bv are not too big */
+	bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bio, i) {
+		if (sofar + bvec->bv_len > size)
+			bvec->bv_len = size - sofar;
+		if (bvec->bv_len == 0) {
+			bio->bi_vcnt = i;
+			break;
+		}
+		sofar += bvec->bv_len;
+	}
+}
+
+static void split_bio_end(struct bio *bio, int error)
+{
+	struct split_bio *split_bio = bio->bi_private;
+
+	if (error)
+		split_bio->err = error;
+
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&split_bio->pending)) {
+		split_bio->bio->bi_phys_segments = 0;
+		bio_endio(split_bio->bio, split_bio->err);
+		kfree(split_bio);
+	}
+	bio_put(bio);
+}
 
 static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
 	int i;
-	struct blkif_request *req;
+	struct request *req, *n;
 	struct blk_shadow *copy;
-	int j;
+	int rc;
+	struct bio *bio, *cloned_bio;
+	struct bio_list bio_list, merge_bio;
+	unsigned int segs, offset;
+	int pending, size;
+	struct split_bio *split_bio;
+	struct list_head requests;
 
 	/* Stage 1: Make a safe copy of the shadow state. */
 	copy = kmemdup(info->shadow, sizeof(info->shadow),
@@ -1244,36 +1428,64 @@ static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	info->shadow_free = info->ring.req_prod_pvt;
 	info->shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE-1].req.u.rw.id = 0x0fffffff;
 
-	/* Stage 3: Find pending requests and requeue them. */
+	rc = blkfront_setup_indirect(info);
+	if (rc) {
+		kfree(copy);
+		return rc;
+	}
+
+	segs = info->max_indirect_segments ? : BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
+	blk_queue_max_segments(info->rq, segs);
+	bio_list_init(&bio_list);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&requests);
 	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++) {
 		/* Not in use? */
 		if (!copy[i].request)
 			continue;
 
-		/* Grab a request slot and copy shadow state into it. */
-		req = RING_GET_REQUEST(&info->ring, info->ring.req_prod_pvt);
-		*req = copy[i].req;
-
-		/* We get a new request id, and must reset the shadow state. */
-		req->u.rw.id = get_id_from_freelist(info);
-		memcpy(&info->shadow[req->u.rw.id], &copy[i], sizeof(copy[i]));
-
-		if (req->operation != BLKIF_OP_DISCARD) {
-		/* Rewrite any grant references invalidated by susp/resume. */
-			for (j = 0; j < req->u.rw.nr_segments; j++)
-				gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(
-					req->u.rw.seg[j].gref,
-					info->xbdev->otherend_id,
-					pfn_to_mfn(copy[i].grants_used[j]->pfn),
-					0);
+		/*
+		 * Get the bios in the request so we can re-queue them.
+		 */
+		if (copy[i].request->cmd_flags &
+		    (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE)) {
+			/*
+			 * Flush operations don't contain bios, so
+			 * we need to requeue the whole request
+			 */
+			list_add(&copy[i].request->queuelist, &requests);
+			continue;
 		}
-		info->shadow[req->u.rw.id].req = *req;
-
-		info->ring.req_prod_pvt++;
+		merge_bio.head = copy[i].request->bio;
+		merge_bio.tail = copy[i].request->biotail;
+		bio_list_merge(&bio_list, &merge_bio);
+		copy[i].request->bio = NULL;
+		blk_put_request(copy[i].request);
 	}
 
 	kfree(copy);
 
+	/*
+	 * Empty the queue, this is important because we might have
+	 * requests in the queue with more segments than what we
+	 * can handle now.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
+	while ((req = blk_fetch_request(info->rq)) != NULL) {
+		if (req->cmd_flags &
+		    (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE)) {
+			list_add(&req->queuelist, &requests);
+			continue;
+		}
+		merge_bio.head = req->bio;
+		merge_bio.tail = req->biotail;
+		bio_list_merge(&bio_list, &merge_bio);
+		req->bio = NULL;
+		if (req->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA))
+			pr_alert("diskcache flush request found!\n");
+		__blk_put_request(info->rq, req);
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irq(&info->io_lock);
+
 	xenbus_switch_state(info->xbdev, XenbusStateConnected);
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&info->io_lock);
@@ -1281,14 +1493,50 @@ static int blkif_recover(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	/* Now safe for us to use the shared ring */
 	info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED;
 
-	/* Send off requeued requests */
-	flush_requests(info);
-
 	/* Kick any other new requests queued since we resumed */
 	kick_pending_request_queues(info);
 
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(req, n, &requests, queuelist) {
+		/* Requeue pending requests (flush or discard) */
+		list_del_init(&req->queuelist);
+		BUG_ON(req->nr_phys_segments > segs);
+		blk_requeue_request(info->rq, req);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&info->io_lock);
 
+	while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list)) != NULL) {
+		/* Traverse the list of pending bios and re-queue them */
+		if (bio_segments(bio) > segs) {
+			/*
+			 * This bio has more segments than what we can
+			 * handle, we have to split it.
+			 */
+			pending = (bio_segments(bio) + segs - 1) / segs;
+			split_bio = kzalloc(sizeof(*split_bio), GFP_NOIO);
+			BUG_ON(split_bio == NULL);
+			atomic_set(&split_bio->pending, pending);
+			split_bio->bio = bio;
+			for (i = 0; i < pending; i++) {
+				offset = (i * segs * PAGE_SIZE) >> 9;
+				size = min((unsigned int)(segs * PAGE_SIZE) >> 9,
+					   (unsigned int)(bio->bi_size >> 9) - offset);
+				cloned_bio = bio_clone(bio, GFP_NOIO);
+				BUG_ON(cloned_bio == NULL);
+				trim_bio(cloned_bio, offset, size);
+				cloned_bio->bi_private = split_bio;
+				cloned_bio->bi_end_io = split_bio_end;
+				submit_bio(cloned_bio->bi_rw, cloned_bio);
+			}
+			/*
+			 * Now we have to wait for all those smaller bios to
+			 * end, so we can also end the "parent" bio.
+			 */
+			continue;
+		}
+		/* We don't need to split this bio */
+		submit_bio(bio->bi_rw, bio);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1308,8 +1556,12 @@ static int blkfront_resume(struct xenbus_device *dev)
 	blkif_free(info, info->connected == BLKIF_STATE_CONNECTED);
 
 	err = talk_to_blkback(dev, info);
-	if (info->connected == BLKIF_STATE_SUSPENDED && !err)
-		err = blkif_recover(info);
+
+	/*
+	 * We have to wait for the backend to switch to
+	 * connected state, since we want to read which
+	 * features it supports.
+	 */
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -1387,6 +1639,60 @@ static void blkfront_setup_discard(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	kfree(type);
 }
 
+static int blkfront_setup_indirect(struct blkfront_info *info)
+{
+	unsigned int indirect_segments, segs;
+	int err, i;
+
+	err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
+			    "feature-max-indirect-segments", "%u", &indirect_segments,
+			    NULL);
+	if (err) {
+		info->max_indirect_segments = 0;
+		segs = BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST;
+	} else {
+		info->max_indirect_segments = min(indirect_segments,
+						  xen_blkif_max_segments);
+		segs = info->max_indirect_segments;
+	}
+
+	err = fill_grant_buffer(info, (segs + INDIRECT_GREFS(segs)) * BLK_RING_SIZE);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_of_memory;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++) {
+		info->shadow[i].grants_used = kzalloc(
+			sizeof(info->shadow[i].grants_used[0]) * segs,
+			GFP_NOIO);
+		info->shadow[i].sg = kzalloc(sizeof(info->shadow[i].sg[0]) * segs, GFP_NOIO);
+		if (info->max_indirect_segments)
+			info->shadow[i].indirect_grants = kzalloc(
+				sizeof(info->shadow[i].indirect_grants[0]) *
+				INDIRECT_GREFS(segs),
+				GFP_NOIO);
+		if ((info->shadow[i].grants_used == NULL) ||
+			(info->shadow[i].sg == NULL) ||
+		     (info->max_indirect_segments &&
+		     (info->shadow[i].indirect_grants == NULL)))
+			goto out_of_memory;
+		sg_init_table(info->shadow[i].sg, segs);
+	}
+
+
+	return 0;
+
+out_of_memory:
+	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++) {
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].grants_used);
+		info->shadow[i].grants_used = NULL;
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].sg);
+		info->shadow[i].sg = NULL;
+		kfree(info->shadow[i].indirect_grants);
+		info->shadow[i].indirect_grants = NULL;
+	}
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
 /*
  * Invoked when the backend is finally 'ready' (and has told produced
  * the details about the physical device - #sectors, size, etc).
@@ -1395,6 +1701,7 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
 {
 	unsigned long long sectors;
 	unsigned long sector_size;
+	unsigned int physical_sector_size;
 	unsigned int binfo;
 	int err;
 	int barrier, flush, discard, persistent;
@@ -1414,8 +1721,15 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
 		set_capacity(info->gd, sectors);
 		revalidate_disk(info->gd);
 
-		/* fall through */
+		return;
 	case BLKIF_STATE_SUSPENDED:
+		/*
+		 * If we are recovering from suspension, we need to wait
+		 * for the backend to announce it's features before
+		 * reconnecting, at least we need to know if the backend
+		 * supports indirect descriptors, and how many.
+		 */
+		blkif_recover(info);
 		return;
 
 	default:
@@ -1437,6 +1751,16 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * physcial-sector-size is a newer field, so old backends may not
+	 * provide this. Assume physical sector size to be the same as
+	 * sector_size in that case.
+	 */
+	err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
+			   "physical-sector-size", "%u", &physical_sector_size);
+	if (err != 1)
+		physical_sector_size = sector_size;
+
 	info->feature_flush = 0;
 	info->flush_op = 0;
 
@@ -1483,7 +1807,15 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info *info)
 	else
 		info->feature_persistent = persistent;
 
-	err = xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(sectors, info, binfo, sector_size);
+	err = blkfront_setup_indirect(info);
+	if (err) {
+		xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, err, "setup_indirect at %s",
+				 info->xbdev->otherend);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	err = xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(sectors, info, binfo, sector_size,
+				  physical_sector_size);
 	if (err) {
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, err, "xlvbd_add at %s",
 				 info->xbdev->otherend);