Re: [PATCH V2] block: make segment size limit workable for > 4K PAGE_SIZE

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On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 10:38:36AM +0100, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 05:03:19PM +0100, Ming Lei wrote:
> > PAGE_SIZE is applied in some block device queue limits, this way is
> > very fragile and is wrong:
> > 
> > - queue limits are read from hardware, which is often one readonly
> > hardware property
> > 
> > - PAGE_SIZE is one config option which can be changed during build time.
> > 
> > In RH lab, it has been found that max segment size of some mmc card is
> > less than 64K, then this kind of card can't work in case of 64K PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > Fix this issue by using BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE in related code for dealing
> > with queue limits and checking if bio needn't split. Define BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE
> > as 4K(minimized PAGE_SIZE).
> > 
> > Cc: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20250102015620.500754-1-ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V2:
> > 	- cover bio_split_rw_at()
> > 	- add BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE
> > 
> >  block/blk-merge.c      | 2 +-
> >  block/blk-settings.c   | 6 +++---
> >  block/blk.h            | 2 +-
> >  include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
> >  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> > index 15cd231d560c..b55c52a42303 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> > @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ int bio_split_rw_at(struct bio *bio, const struct queue_limits *lim,
> >  
> >  		if (nsegs < lim->max_segments &&
> >  		    bytes + bv.bv_len <= max_bytes &&
> > -		    bv.bv_offset + bv.bv_len <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> > +		    bv.bv_offset + bv.bv_len <= BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE) {
> >  			nsegs++;
> >  			bytes += bv.bv_len;
> >  		} else {
> > diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
> > index c44dadc35e1e..539a64ad7989 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-settings.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-settings.c
> > @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ int blk_validate_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
> >  	max_hw_sectors = min_not_zero(lim->max_hw_sectors,
> >  				lim->max_dev_sectors);
> >  	if (lim->max_user_sectors) {
> > -		if (lim->max_user_sectors < PAGE_SIZE / SECTOR_SIZE)
> > +		if (lim->max_user_sectors < BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE / SECTOR_SIZE)
> >  			return -EINVAL;
> >  		lim->max_sectors = min(max_hw_sectors, lim->max_user_sectors);
> >  	} else if (lim->io_opt > (BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS_CAP << SECTOR_SHIFT)) {
> > @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ int blk_validate_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
> >  	 */
> >  	if (!lim->seg_boundary_mask)
> >  		lim->seg_boundary_mask = BLK_SEG_BOUNDARY_MASK;
> > -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lim->seg_boundary_mask < PAGE_SIZE - 1))
> > +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lim->seg_boundary_mask < BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE - 1))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> >  	/*
> > @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ int blk_validate_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
> >  		 */
> >  		if (!lim->max_segment_size)
> >  			lim->max_segment_size = BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE;
> > -		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lim->max_segment_size < PAGE_SIZE))
> > +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lim->max_segment_size < BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE))
> >  			return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  
> > diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
> > index 90fa5f28ccab..cbfa8a3d4e42 100644
> > --- a/block/blk.h
> > +++ b/block/blk.h
> > @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static inline bool bio_may_need_split(struct bio *bio,
> >  		const struct queue_limits *lim)
> >  {
> >  	return lim->chunk_sectors || bio->bi_vcnt != 1 ||
> > -		bio->bi_io_vec->bv_len + bio->bi_io_vec->bv_offset > PAGE_SIZE;
> > +		bio->bi_io_vec->bv_len + bio->bi_io_vec->bv_offset > BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE;
> >  }
> >  
> >  /**
> > diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > index 248416ecd01c..32188af4051e 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> > @@ -1163,6 +1163,7 @@ static inline bool bdev_is_partition(struct block_device *bdev)
> >  enum blk_default_limits {
> >  	BLK_MAX_SEGMENTS	= 128,
> >  	BLK_SAFE_MAX_SECTORS	= 255,
> > +	BLK_MIN_SEGMENT_SIZE	= 4096, /* min(PAGE_SIZE) */
> 
> I think it would be useful to expose this value to the queue_limits and

Can you share it is useful for what?

> sysfs (and remove it from here). We can default it to PAGE_SIZE (as it has
> always been) and allow to overwrite it when the block driver initializes the

Which device driver needs to initialize it?

> limits. This allows to see we are not anymore in the range of PAGE_SIZE -
> max_segment_size 'world' but min_segment_size - max_segment_size one. Unless
> there's a reason to not increase queue_limits data struct?

Unless you provide one real hardware which needs this way, I don't think
the min_segment_size limit is useful.


Thanks,
Ming





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