From: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>,
Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
"Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Li <faithilikerun@gmail.com>,
Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 00/15] block: fix the zone write granularity and the zone append limit
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918172925.2640888-1-cassel@kernel.org> (raw)
Hello Stefan, Kevin, and everyone else,
This series fixes how QEMU reports and enforces the two constraints that a
zoned device places on a write to a sequential zone: the write granularity,
and the largest zone append that it accepts. It also fixes two bugs in the
zone append emulation in file-posix, one of which a guest can reach.
Most of it is preparation for Sam Li's zoned qcow2 series. The first two
patches are taken directly from there, as they are unrelated to qcow2.
Neither of the two values that this series touches is derived from
BlockLimits any more, which was Stefan's objection to v4: the guest has
been told the value, so it is part of the migration stream, and a
destination host whose disks report something else breaks the guest. The
write granularity now comes from the logical and the physical block size,
the append limit from a property, and a backend that needs more than the
configuration can express is refused at realize. The conditions that hold
for every backend rather than for a particular one moved into the block
layer, where they also cover callers that are not a device model.
Changes since v4:
- Patch 4 is new: a helper to check if a zone is conventional. The device
model tested that by reaching into bs->wps->wp[] and decoding the bit
that the block layer encodes it in, which two patches here would have
added two more instances of.
- Patch 5: derive the granularity from the logical and the physical block
size rather than from BlockLimits. Document
BlockLimits.write_granularity. Dropped Damien's Reviewed-by, as the
derivation itself changed.
- Patch 7: also refuse a backend that needs a coarser granularity than the
block sizes can express. Dropped Damien's Reviewed-by, as the patch
gained a check.
- Patch 9 is new: reject an append larger than a zone. This is the bound
that the device model gives up by no longer deriving its own limit.
- Patch 11: a max-append-sectors property rather than a value derived from
the backend. It now precedes patch 12, which v4 had first; that way round
left a commit that reported a zero limit to the guest.
- Patch 12: remove BlockLimits.max_append_sectors, rather than have
file-posix report max_hw_transfer for it. Nothing reads the field once
virtio-blk takes its limit from a property, and file-posix was its only
writer. Damien, your Reviewed-by was for reporting max_hw_transfer, so I
have dropped it.
- Patch 15 is new: the CoroutineIOCompletion cleanup.
Niklas Cassel (13):
block: add a helper for the index of the zone an offset falls in
block: add a helper to check if a zone is conventional
hw/block: derive the zone write granularity from the block sizes
virtio-blk: check the write granularity of writes to sequential zones
hw/block: reject a zoned device that the block sizes cannot address
block: reject zone appends that are not a multiple of the sector size
block: reject a zone append that is larger than a zone
file-posix: remove the zone append write granularity check
virtio-blk: add a max-append-sectors property
block: remove BlockLimits.max_append_sectors
file-posix: reject a zone append past the device capacity
file-posix: reject a zone append to a full or conventional zone
block: do not use CoroutineIOCompletion to hold a return value
Sam Li (2):
block: widen BlockLimits.zone_size to uint64_t
virtio-blk: do not merge requests across a zone boundary
block/block-backend.c | 11 +++
block/file-posix.c | 59 +++++++-----
block/io.c | 79 ++++++++++++----
hw/block/block.c | 68 ++++++++++++++
hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/block/block-io.h | 14 +++
include/block/block_int-common.h | 19 +++-
include/hw/block/block.h | 14 +++
include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h | 1 +
include/system/block-backend-io.h | 1 +
10 files changed, 349 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
base-commit: 3b5d71cc3652fa7f5ecc449f05dae3ead2b718d7
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2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-18 17:29 Niklas Cassel [this message]
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] block: widen BlockLimits.zone_size to uint64_t Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] virtio-blk: do not merge requests across a zone boundary Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] block: add a helper for the index of the zone an offset falls in Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] block: add a helper to check if a zone is conventional Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] hw/block: derive the zone write granularity from the block sizes Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] virtio-blk: check the write granularity of writes to sequential zones Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] hw/block: reject a zoned device that the block sizes cannot address Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] block: reject zone appends that are not a multiple of the sector size Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] block: reject a zone append that is larger than a zone Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] file-posix: remove the zone append write granularity check Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] virtio-blk: add a max-append-sectors property Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] block: remove BlockLimits.max_append_sectors Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] file-posix: reject a zone append past the device capacity Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] file-posix: reject a zone append to a full or conventional zone Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 17:29 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] block: do not use CoroutineIOCompletion to hold a return value Niklas Cassel
2026-09-18 18:09 ` [PATCH v5 00/15] block: fix the zone write granularity and the zone append limit Niklas Cassel
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