From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>, Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>,
Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>,
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@collabora.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] block: loop: set discard granularity and alignment for block device backed loop
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:17:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200817101718.GC25336@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200817100130.2496059-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 06:01:30PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> In case of block device backend, if the backend supports write zeros, the
> loop device will set queue flag of QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD. However,
> limits.discard_granularity isn't setup, and this way is wrong,
> see the following description in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block:
>
> A discard_granularity of 0 means that the device does not support
> discard functionality.
>
> Especially 9b15d109a6b2 ("block: improve discard bio alignment in
> __blkdev_issue_discard()") starts to take q->limits.discard_granularity
> for computing max discard sectors. And zero discard granularity may cause
> kernel oops, or fail discard request even though the loop queue claims
> discard support via QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD.
>
> Fix the issue by setup discard granularity and alignment.
This patch looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
If you have a few spare cycles, can you kill QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD and
just key off discard support based on checking discard_granularity to
avoid problems like this in the future?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-17 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-17 10:01 [PATCH RESEND] block: loop: set discard granularity and alignment for block device backed loop Ming Lei
2020-08-17 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-18 3:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-08-17 13:58 ` Jens Axboe
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