linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] addjust discard request to be aligned with hwsect size to support SSDs with larger sector size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 17 May 2010 12:27:28 -0700
From:	Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mrubin@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] addjust discard request to be aligned with hwsect 
	size to support SSDs with larger sector size

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:19:53PM -0700, Jiaying Zhang wrote:
>> The currect blkdev_issue_discard() function assumes 512 sector size.
>> We have seen some problem when using discard on a SSD that has larger
>> sector size. The following patch adjusts the starting address and size of
>> a discard request to be aligned with hwsect size.
>
> Looks good,
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>
>> -     if (!blk_queue_discard(q))
>> +     if (!blk_queue_discard(q) || q->limits.max_discard_sectors == 0)
>>               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> But this change is unrelated.  It's fine with me, but needs a patch of
> it's own with a proper description.
>
I will break the patch into two.

Thanks!

Jiaying
>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/