Re: [PATCHv6 2/2] loop: support 4k physical blocksize

Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-07T09:38:34Z

On 04/07/2017 11:34 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:58:58AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> When generating bootable VM images certain systems (most notably
>> s390x) require devices with 4k blocksize. This patch implements
>> a new flag 'LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE' which will set the physical
>> blocksize to that of the underlying device, and allow to change
>> the logical blocksize for up to the physical blocksize.
>
> Actually this UAPI flag is only for setting logical block size.
>
Hmm? No, we're setting the physical blocksize, too.
Or am I missing something?

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/block/loop.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>> drivers/block/loop.h | 1 +
>> include/uapi/linux/loop.h | 3 +++
>> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
>> index 81b3900..f098681 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
>> @@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio)
>> }
>>
>> static int
>> -figure_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, loff_t offset, loff_t sizelimit)
>> +figure_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, loff_t offset, loff_t sizelimit,
>> + loff_t logical_blocksize)
>> {
>> loff_t size = get_size(offset, sizelimit, lo->lo_backing_file);
>> sector_t x = (sector_t)size;
>> @@ -233,6 +234,12 @@ static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio)
>> lo->lo_offset = offset;
>> if (lo->lo_sizelimit != sizelimit)
>> lo->lo_sizelimit = sizelimit;
>> + if (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE) {
>> + lo->lo_logical_blocksize = logical_blocksize;
>> + blk_queue_physical_block_size(lo->lo_queue, lo->lo_blocksize);
>> + blk_queue_logical_block_size(lo->lo_queue,
>> + lo->lo_logical_blocksize);
>> + }
>
> We can move setting physical block size into loop_set_fd(), and set
> 512 bytes as default logical block size in loop_set_fd() too.
>
Okay.

>> set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, x);
>> bd_set_size(bdev, (loff_t)get_capacity(bdev->bd_disk) << 9);
>> /* let user-space know about the new size */
>> @@ -814,6 +821,7 @@ static void loop_config_discard(struct loop_device *lo)
>> struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
>> struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
>> struct request_queue *q = lo->lo_queue;
>> + int lo_bits = blksize_bits(lo->lo_logical_blocksize);
>>
>> /*
>> * We use punch hole to reclaim the free space used by the
>> @@ -833,7 +841,7 @@ static void loop_config_discard(struct loop_device *lo)
>>
>> q->limits.discard_granularity = inode->i_sb->s_blocksize;
>> q->limits.discard_alignment = 0;
>> - blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(q, UINT_MAX >> 9);
>> + blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(q, UINT_MAX >> lo_bits);
>> q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 1;
>> queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);
>> }
>> @@ -922,6 +930,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
>>
>> lo->use_dio = false;
>> lo->lo_blocksize = lo_blocksize;
>> + lo->lo_logical_blocksize = 512;
>
> It isn't enough to just this local vaiable as 512 here, since the last
> logical block size is still kept in queue's setting.
>
Right. Will be updating the queue setting, too.

Cheers,

Hannes
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