Currently pblk and lightnvm does only check for size of OOB metadata and does not care wheather this meta is located in separate buffer or is interleaved with data in single buffer. In reality only the first scenario is supported, where second mode will break pblk functionality during any IO operation. The goal of this patch is to block creation of pblk devices in case of interleaved metadata Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c | 1 + include/linux/lightnvm.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c index b794e279da31..1529aa37b30f 100644 --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c @@ -1152,6 +1152,12 @@ static void *pblk_init(struct nvm_tgt_dev *dev, struct gendisk *tdisk, return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } + if (geo->ext) { + pblk_err(pblk, "extended metadata not supported\n"); + kfree(pblk); + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } + spin_lock_init(&pblk->resubmit_lock); spin_lock_init(&pblk->trans_lock); spin_lock_init(&pblk->lock); diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c b/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c index e370793f52d5..7020e87bcee4 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c @@ -989,6 +989,7 @@ void nvme_nvm_update_nvm_info(struct nvme_ns *ns) geo->csecs = 1 << ns->lba_shift; geo->sos = ns->ms; + geo->ext = ns->ext; } int nvme_nvm_register(struct nvme_ns *ns, char *disk_name, int node) diff --git a/include/linux/lightnvm.h b/include/linux/lightnvm.h index c6c998716ee7..abd29f50f2a1 100644 --- a/include/linux/lightnvm.h +++ b/include/linux/lightnvm.h @@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ struct nvm_geo { u32 clba; /* sectors per chunk */ u16 csecs; /* sector size */ u16 sos; /* out-of-band area size */ + u16 ext; /* metadata in extended data buffer */ /* device write constrains */ u32 ws_min; /* minimum write size */ -- 2.17.1