On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 07:44 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > However, the case here is that: > > > > > > i.e. page offset len sector > > > > > 00000000a77f0146 768 3328 0x7d0048 > > > > > 000000006ceca91e 0 768 0x7d004e > > The second page added to the bvec is actually offset alignedr. Hence > the check would do nothing on the first page because the bvec array > is empty (so goes into a new bvec anyway), and the check on the > second page would do nothing an it would merge with first because > the offset is aligned correctly. In both cases, the length of the > segment is not aligned, so that needs to be checked, too. > > IOWs, I think the check needs to be in bio_add_page, it needs to > check both the offset and length for alignment, and it needs to grab > the alignment from queue_dma_alignment(), not use a hard coded value > of 511. > So something like this? diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c index 299a0e7651ec..80f449d23e5a 100644 --- a/block/bio.c +++ b/block/bio.c @@ -822,8 +822,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__bio_add_page); int bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned int len, unsigned int offset) { + struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_disk->queue; bool same_page = false; + if (offset & queue_dma_alignment(q) || len & queue_dma_alignment(q)) + return 0; + if (!__bio_try_merge_page(bio, page, len, offset, &same_page)) { if (bio_full(bio, len)) return 0; I tried this, but the 'mount' just hangs - which looks like it might be due to xfs_rw_bdev() doing: while (bio_add_page(bio, page, len, off) != len) { ...