linux-kernel - Re: first bad commit: [5795eb443060148796beeba106e4366d7f1458a6] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:26:58 +0000
From:   Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@....com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>
CC:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: first bad commit: [5795eb443060148796beeba106e4366d7f1458a6]
 scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands

On 12/09/2020 00:22, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 9/11/20 3:17 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>> Now, looking at that patch:
>>>
>>>   5795eb443060 ("scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands")
>>>
>>> yeah, that doesn't revert cleanly. But it talks about zoned-something
>>> devices and that rings a bell because you guys broke my zoned device
>>> once already:
>>
>> Ok, so Johannes and I poked a bit on IRC and here it is:
>>
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED is not set.
>>
>> Enabling it, fixes the issue.
>>
> 
> Uh, you are not saying that enabling that CONFIG_ is the final fix, are you?
> 
> If so, do I need to enable it, even if I don't have a zoned block device?
>

No he does have a zoned block device and no this is not the final fix, I 
think one of the stubbed out functions is broken, but it's midnight here
so we're calling it a day and chime back in on Monday.

And this setup is a bit special, as Boris is using partitions on a host-aware
zoned block device which is somewhat exotic (see add_partition()).

Byte,
	Johannes