From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, kbusch@kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yukuai3@huawei.com,
yi.zhang@huawei.com, yangerkun@huawei.com,
johnny.chenyi@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] brd: zero data for discard that is not aligned to page
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:27:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aAXXS1Xq5g2yLTTM@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250418093826.3149293-6-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 05:38:26PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
>
> Currently brd_do_discard() will just skip unaligned sectors, and in this
> case user will still get old data after discard. Fix this by writing
> zero data to unaligned sectors.
Which is perfectly fine with discard semantics and that of the
underlying primitives in storage standards. If you need guaranteed
zeroing you need to implement the write zeroes operation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-21 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-18 9:38 [PATCH 0/5] brd: discard bugfix Yu Kuai
2025-04-18 9:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] brd: fix oops if write concurrent with discard Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 5:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-18 9:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] brd: synchronize using page and free page with rcu Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 5:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-21 7:08 ` Yu Kuai
2025-04-18 9:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] brd: fix aligned_sector from brd_do_discard() Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 5:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-18 9:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] brd: fix discard end sector Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 5:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-04-18 9:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] brd: zero data for discard that is not aligned to page Yu Kuai
2025-04-21 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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