Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: alignment check bio buffers

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:08:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 02:49:05PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:50:02AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > It isn't correct to blk_rq_aligned() here because 'len' has to be logical block
> > > size aligned, instead of DMA aligned only.
> 
> Even if len would have to be a multiple of the sector size, that doesn't
> mean calling blk_rq_aligned would be incorrect, just possibly not
> catching all issues.

In theory, fs bio shouldn't care any DMA limits, which should have been done
on splitted bio for doing IO to device.

Also .dma_alignment isn't considered in blk_stack_limits(), so in case
of DM, MD or other stacking drivers, fs code won't know the accurate
.dma_alignment of underlying queues at all, and the stacking driver's
queue dma alignment is still 512.

Also suppose the check is added, I am a bit curious how fs code handles the
failure, so could you explain a bit about the failure handling?

Thanks, 
Ming



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