linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Disable BTRFS on platforms having 256K pages

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Message-ID: <20210611132121.GF28158@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:21:22 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:     "dsterba@...e.cz" <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Disable BTRFS on platforms having 256K pages

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:58:58PM +0000, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Jun 10, 2021, at 12:20 PM, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 04:50:09PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >> Le 10/06/2021 à 15:54, Chris Mason a écrit :
> >>>> On Jun 10, 2021, at 1:23 AM, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> wrote:
> > And there's no such thing like "just bump BTRFS_MAX_COMPRESSED to 256K".
> > The constant is part of on-disk format for lzo and otherwise changing it
> > would impact performance so this would need proper evaluation.
> 
> Sorry, how is it baked into LZO?  It definitely will have performance implications, I agree there.

lzo_decompress_bio:

309         /*
310          * Compressed data header check.
311          *
312          * The real compressed size can't exceed the maximum extent length, and
313          * all pages should be used (whole unused page with just the segment
314          * header is not possible).  If this happens it means the compressed
315          * extent is corrupted.
316          */
317         if (tot_len > min_t(size_t, BTRFS_MAX_COMPRESSED, srclen) ||
318             tot_len < srclen - PAGE_SIZE) {
319                 ret = -EUCLEAN;
320                 goto done;
321         }