Re: [PATCHv2 0/5] fix direct io device mapper errors

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On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 01:07:05PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10 2022 at  1:44P -0500,
> Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The 6.0 kernel made some changes to the direct io interface to allow
> > offsets in user addresses. This based on the hardware's capabilities
> > reported in the request_queue's dma_alignment attribute.
> > 
> > dm-crypt, -log-writes and -integrity require direct io be aligned to the
> > block size. Since it was only ever using the default 511 dma mask, this
> > requirement may fail if formatted to something larger, like 4k, which
> > will result in unexpected behavior with direct-io.
> > 
> > Changes since v1: Added the same fix for -integrity and -log-writes
> > 
> > The first three were reported successfully tested by Dmitrii Tcvetkov,
> > but I don't have an official Tested-by: tag.
> > 
> >   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20221103194140.06ce3d36@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mba1d0b13374541cdad3b669ec4257a11301d1860
> > 
> > Keitio errors on Busch (5):
> >   block: make dma_alignment a stacking queue_limit
> >   dm-crypt: provide dma_alignment limit in io_hints
> >   block: make blk_set_default_limits() private
> >   dm-integrity: set dma_alignment limit in io_hints
> >   dm-log-writes: set dma_alignment limit in io_hints
> > 
> >  block/blk-core.c           |  1 -
> >  block/blk-settings.c       |  9 +++++----
> >  block/blk.h                |  1 +
> >  drivers/md/dm-crypt.c      |  1 +
> >  drivers/md/dm-integrity.c  |  1 +
> >  drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c |  1 +
> >  include/linux/blkdev.h     | 16 ++++++++--------
> >  7 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.30.2
> > 
> 
> There are other DM targets that override logical_block_size in their
> .io_hints hook (writecache, ebs, zoned). Have you reasoned through why
> those do _not_ need updating too?

Yeah, that's a good question. The ones that have a problem all make
assumptions about a bio's bv_offset being logical block size aligned,
and each of those is accounted for here. Everything else looks fine with
respect to handling offsets.

> Is there any risk of just introducing a finalization method in block
> core (that DM's .io_hints would call) that would ensure limits that
> are a funtion of another are always in sync?  Would avoid whack-a-mole
> issues in the future.

I don't think we can this particular limit issue. A lot of drivers and
devices can use a smaller dma_alignment than the logical block size, so
the generic block layer wouldn't really know the driver's intentions for
the relationship of these limits.

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