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* [PATCH V2 0/3] Fix zone revalidation memory allocation failures
@ 2019-06-26  1:47 Damien Le Moal
  2019-06-26  1:47 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers Damien Le Moal
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From: Damien Le Moal @ 2019-06-26  1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi, Martin K . Petersen, linux-block, Jens Axboe
  Cc: Christoph Hellwig, Bart Van Assche

This series addresses a reccuring problem with zone revalidation
failures observed during extensive testing with memory constrained
system and device hot-plugging.

The problem source is failure to allocate large memory areas with
alloc_pages() or kmalloc() in blk_revalidate_disk_zones() to store the
disk array of zones (struct blk_zone) or in sd_zbc_report_zones() for
the report zones command reply buffer.

The solution proposed here is to:
1) limit the number of zones to be reported with a single report zones
command execution, and
2) Use vmalloc to allocate large-ish arrays and buffers in place of
alloc_pages() and kmalloc().

With these changes, tests do not show any zone revalidation failures
while not impacting the time taken for a disk initial zone inspection
during device scan.

Changes from V1:
* Added call to invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() for vmalloc-ed buffers
  in patch 1.
* Fixed patch 2 compilation error with Sparc64 (kbuild robot)

Damien Le Moal (3):
  block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
  sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation
  block: Limit zone array allocation size

 block/bio.c            | 12 ++++++-
 block/blk-zoned.c      | 29 +++++++--------
 drivers/scsi/sd_zbc.c  | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/linux/blkdev.h |  5 +++
 4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
2.21.0


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2019-06-26  6:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
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2019-06-26  1:47 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation Damien Le Moal
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