linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] loop: Enable correct physical blocksize

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:37:17 +0100
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.com>,
        Ming@...e.de, "Lei <tom.leiming"@gmail.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] loop: Enable correct physical blocksize

When running on files the physical blocksize is actually 4k,
so we should be announcing it as such. This is enabled with
a new LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE flag value to the existing
loop_set_status ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
---
 drivers/block/loop.c      | 9 ++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/loop.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 3008dec..ff5c874 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ figure_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, loff_t offset, loff_t sizelimit)
 		lo->lo_offset = offset;
 	if (lo->lo_sizelimit != sizelimit)
 		lo->lo_sizelimit = sizelimit;
+	if (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE)
+		blk_queue_physical_block_size(lo->lo_queue, lo->lo_blocksize);
 	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 */
@@ -1087,6 +1089,7 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info64 *info)
 	int err;
 	struct loop_func_table *xfer;
 	kuid_t uid = current_uid();
+	int lo_flags = lo->lo_flags;
 
 	if (lo->lo_encrypt_key_size &&
 	    !uid_eq(lo->lo_key_owner, uid) &&
@@ -1116,8 +1119,12 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info64 *info)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	if (info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE)
+		lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE;
+
 	if (lo->lo_offset != info->lo_offset ||
-	    lo->lo_sizelimit != info->lo_sizelimit)
+	    lo->lo_sizelimit != info->lo_sizelimit ||
+	    lo->lo_flags != lo_flags)
 		if (figure_loop_size(lo, info->lo_offset, info->lo_sizelimit))
 			return -EFBIG;
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/loop.h b/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
index c8125ec..2691c1c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ enum {
 	LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR	= 4,
 	LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN	= 8,
 	LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO	= 16,
+	LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE	= 32,
 };
 
 #include <asm/posix_types.h>	/* for __kernel_old_dev_t */
-- 
2.6.6