linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: properly stack underlying max_segment

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Date:	Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:46:10 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	l.flis@...ronet.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM
 device

On Fri, Oct 18 2013, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Without this patch all DM devices will default to BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE
> (65536) even if the underlying device(s) have a larger value -- this is
> due to blk_stack_limits() using min_not_zero() when stacking the
> max_segment_size limit.
> 
> # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/max_segment_size
> 1073741824
> 
> # cat /sys/block/dm-0/queue/max_segment_size
> before patch:
> 65536
> 
> after patch:
> 1073741824
> 
> Reported-by: Lukasz Flis <l.flis@...ronet.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v3.3+
> ---
>  block/blk-settings.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
> index c50ecf0..29f28bb 100644
> --- a/block/blk-settings.c
> +++ b/block/blk-settings.c
> @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ void blk_set_stacking_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
>  	/* Inherit limits from component devices */
>  	lim->discard_zeroes_data = 1;
>  	lim->max_segments = USHRT_MAX;
> +	lim->max_segment_size = UINT_MAX;
>  	lim->max_hw_sectors = UINT_MAX;
>  	lim->max_sectors = UINT_MAX;
>  	lim->max_write_same_sectors = UINT_MAX;

Thanks, applied for 3.13.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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