From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Keith Busch <kbusch@meta.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, brauner@kernel.org, djwong@kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, regressions@lists.linux.dev,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] block: validate direct I/O memory alignment
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:52:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amtJDCtczVyX1baB@kbusch-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260730112626.GA24827@lst.de>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 01:26:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 02:03:07PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > > Hi Jens, have you had a chance to look at this one yet? This addresses
> > > > previous issues with certain device mappers under direct io.
> > >
> > > I they look fine, but at this point we should toss them into 7.3. Yes
> > > I know there are regressions around this, but from 6.1x days. And the
> > > series doesn't apply to the current block-7.2 anyway.
> >
> > This series is kind of old at this point, but yes, it's not fixing a new
> > regression either. I'm okay if this goes to the next window, and I will
> > handle the stable follow-up.
>
> Honestly, I think that'a a reall bad idea. This is a regression in 6.18,
> and while it took a while for people to hit this with their a little
> more complicated lvm/md setups, it has stopped real systems from being
> used. We need to fix this ASAP.
This should have gone in several weeks ago, IMO. You can most readily
hit a problem running qemu against one of those lvm setups. We're just
so late in this release cycle that I'm not pushing hard for 7.2, but I
would support that choice too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-30 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 20:10 [PATCH RESEND 0/5] block: validate direct I/O memory alignment Keith Busch
2026-07-20 20:10 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/5] block: use blkdev_iov_iter_get_pages status for errors Keith Busch
2026-07-20 20:10 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/5] block: fix dio leak on metadata mapping error Keith Busch
2026-07-20 20:10 ` [PATCH RESEND 3/5] loop: set dma_alignment from the backing file for direct I/O Keith Busch
2026-07-20 20:10 ` [PATCH RESEND 4/5] zloop: set dma_alignment from the backing files " Keith Busch
2026-07-20 20:10 ` [PATCH RESEND 5/5] block: validate user space vectors during extraction Keith Busch
2026-07-29 19:15 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/5] block: validate direct I/O memory alignment Keith Busch
2026-07-29 19:18 ` Jens Axboe
2026-07-29 20:03 ` Keith Busch
2026-07-29 23:34 ` Jens Axboe
2026-07-30 11:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-30 12:52 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2026-07-30 13:25 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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