linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio-blk: Consider virtio_max_dma

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Message-ID: <20190124095150.GL32526@8bytes.org>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:51:51 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, jfehlig@...e.com,
        jon.grimm@....com, brijesh.singh@....com, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio-blk: Consider virtio_max_dma_size() for
 maximum segment size

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yes.  But more importantly it would fix the limit for all other block
> drivers that set large segment sizes when running over swiotlb.

True, so it would be something like the diff below? I havn't worked on
the block layer, so I don't know if that needs additional checks for
->dev or anything.

diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index 3e7038e475ee..9a927280c904 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Functions related to setting various queue properties from drivers
  */
+#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -303,13 +304,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_max_discard_segments);
  **/
 void blk_queue_max_segment_size(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int max_size)
 {
+	unsigned int dma_max_size;
+
 	if (max_size < PAGE_SIZE) {
 		max_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: set to minimum %d\n",
 		       __func__, max_size);
 	}
 
-	q->limits.max_segment_size = max_size;
+	dma_max_size = dma_max_mapping_size(q->backing_dev_info->dev);
+
+	q->limits.max_segment_size = min(max_size, dma_max_size);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_max_segment_size);