From: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
"Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>,
"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 v6 05/15] hw/block: derive the zone write granularity from the block sizes
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:28:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921142819.2916043-6-cassel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921142819.2916043-1-cassel@kernel.org>
For ZBC/ZAC devices the write granularity is the physical block size, so
a 512e SMR disk exposed through a host_device backend has a logical block
size of 512 and a zone write granularity of 4096. We told the guest
driver 512 while raw_co_zone_append() rejects anything that is not 4096
byte aligned, so the driver saw a plain I/O error for a request it had
been told was valid.
Report the larger of the logical and the physical block size instead.
Both are properties of the device model, so the value that a guest is
given does not change when it is migrated to a host whose disks differ,
which a value taken from BlockLimits would. It is also what a guest
derives for itself: blk_validate_zoned_limits() raises
zone_write_granularity to the logical block size, and for a SCSI disk
sd_zbc_read_zones() takes it from the physical block size.
blkconf_blocksizes() rejects a logical block size larger than the
physical block size, so this is the physical block size in practice. It
is expressed as the larger of the two because that is the constraint
which applies: a guest cannot issue a write finer than the logical block
size, and the medium cannot take one finer than the physical block size.
Add it as a helper next to blkconf_blocksizes(), since it is derived from
a BlockConf, and use it for the zone append offset check in
check_zoned_request(), which validated against bs->bl.write_granularity.
The value reported to the driver and the value that requests are
validated against then cannot drift apart. The helper cannot return zero
because blkconf_blocksizes() always leaves a logical block size behind,
so the check no longer needs to guard against an unset granularity.
Fixes: 4f7366506a96 ("virtio-blk: add zoned storage emulation for zoned devices")
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
---
hw/block/block.c | 5 +++++
hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 13 +++++++------
include/block/block_int-common.h | 7 +++++++
include/hw/block/block.h | 13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/block/block.c b/hw/block/block.c
index f187fa025d..79b0a67cea 100644
--- a/hw/block/block.c
+++ b/hw/block/block.c
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ bool blkconf_blocksizes(BlockConf *conf, Error **errp)
return true;
}
+uint32_t blkconf_zone_write_granularity(BlockConf *conf)
+{
+ return MAX(conf->logical_block_size, conf->physical_block_size);
+}
+
bool blkconf_apply_backend_options(BlockConf *conf, bool readonly,
bool resizable, Error **errp)
{
diff --git a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
index dd69d81532..6bf1049aea 100644
--- a/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
+++ b/hw/block/virtio-blk.c
@@ -516,11 +516,11 @@ static bool check_zoned_request(VirtIOBlock *s, int64_t offset, int64_t len,
}
if (append) {
- if (bs->bl.write_granularity) {
- if ((offset % bs->bl.write_granularity) != 0) {
- *status = VIRTIO_BLK_S_ZONE_UNALIGNED_WP;
- return false;
- }
+ uint32_t wg_mask = blkconf_zone_write_granularity(&s->conf.conf) - 1;
+
+ if (offset & wg_mask) {
+ *status = VIRTIO_BLK_S_ZONE_UNALIGNED_WP;
+ return false;
}
index = bdrv_zone_index(bs, offset);
@@ -1276,7 +1276,8 @@ static void virtio_blk_update_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config)
bs->bl.max_active_zones);
virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.zoned.max_open_zones,
bs->bl.max_open_zones);
- virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.zoned.write_granularity, blk_size);
+ virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.zoned.write_granularity,
+ blkconf_zone_write_granularity(conf));
virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.zoned.max_append_sectors,
bs->bl.max_append_sectors);
} else {
diff --git a/include/block/block_int-common.h b/include/block/block_int-common.h
index 82aa0c1a6e..7abd2b12bb 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int-common.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int-common.h
@@ -922,6 +922,13 @@ typedef struct BlockLimits {
/* maximum number of active zones */
uint32_t max_active_zones;
+ /*
+ * The granularity that the backend requires of a write to a sequential
+ * zone, in bytes, or zero if it has none. This describes the host, so it
+ * must not be reported to a guest: a frontend reports
+ * blkconf_zone_write_granularity() and checks this against it when the
+ * device is realized.
+ */
uint32_t write_granularity;
} BlockLimits;
diff --git a/include/hw/block/block.h b/include/hw/block/block.h
index df941df19f..c769b1297d 100644
--- a/include/hw/block/block.h
+++ b/include/hw/block/block.h
@@ -114,6 +114,19 @@ bool blkconf_geometry(BlockConf *conf, int *trans,
unsigned cyls_max, unsigned heads_max, unsigned secs_max,
Error **errp);
bool blkconf_blocksizes(BlockConf *conf, Error **errp);
+/*
+ * The alignment constraint that applies to writes to a sequential zone. A guest
+ * cannot issue a write finer than the logical block size, and the medium cannot
+ * take one finer than the physical block size, so the constraint that applies
+ * is the larger of the two. A frontend must report this value to its guest and
+ * validate requests against it.
+ *
+ * It is derived from the configuration and not from the backend, so that a
+ * guest is not given a property of the host, which would differ after
+ * migration. blkconf_blocksizes() rejects a logical block size larger than the
+ * physical block size, so this is the physical block size in practice.
+ */
+uint32_t blkconf_zone_write_granularity(BlockConf *conf);
bool blkconf_apply_backend_options(BlockConf *conf, bool readonly,
bool resizable, Error **errp);
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 14:28 [PATCH v6 00/15] block: fix the zone write granularity and the zone append limit Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 01/15] block: widen BlockLimits.zone_size to uint64_t Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 02/15] virtio-blk: do not merge requests across a zone boundary Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 03/15] block: add a helper for the index of the zone an offset falls in Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 04/15] block: add a helper to check if a zone is conventional Niklas Cassel
2026-09-22 18:55 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` Niklas Cassel [this message]
2026-09-22 18:58 ` [PATCH v6 05/15] hw/block: derive the zone write granularity from the block sizes Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 06/15] virtio-blk: check the write granularity of writes to sequential zones Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 07/15] hw/block: reject a zoned device that the block sizes cannot address Niklas Cassel
2026-09-22 19:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 08/15] block: reject zone appends that are not a multiple of the sector size Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 09/15] block: reject a zone append that is larger than a zone Niklas Cassel
2026-09-22 19:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 10/15] file-posix: remove the zone append write granularity check Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 11/15] virtio-blk: add a max-append-sectors property Niklas Cassel
2026-09-22 19:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 12/15] block: remove BlockLimits.max_append_sectors Niklas Cassel
2026-09-22 19:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 13/15] file-posix: reject a zone append past the device capacity Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 14/15] file-posix: reject a zone append to a full or conventional zone Niklas Cassel
2026-09-21 14:28 ` [PATCH v6 15/15] block: do not use CoroutineIOCompletion to hold a return value Niklas Cassel
2026-10-06 13:15 ` [PATCH v6 00/15] block: fix the zone write granularity and the zone append limit Niklas Cassel
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