This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_blk: fix the discard_granularity and discard_alignment queue limits
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
virtio_blk-fix-the-discard_granularity-and-discard_a.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8b1ad4df0116ffda5acfce49b20bf97806ee9582
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 18 06:53:07 2022 +0200
virtio_blk: fix the discard_granularity and discard_alignment queue limits
[ Upstream commit 62952cc5bccd89b76d710de1d0b43244af0f2903 ]
The discard_alignment queue limit is named a bit misleading means the
offset into the block device at which the discard granularity starts.
On the other hand the discard_sector_alignment from the virtio 1.1 looks
similar to what Linux uses as discard granularity (even if not very well
described):
"discard_sector_alignment can be used by OS when splitting a request
based on alignment. "
And at least qemu does set it to the discard granularity.
So stop setting the discard_alignment and use the virtio
discard_sector_alignment to set the discard granularity.
Fixes: 1f23816b8eb8 ("virtio_blk: add discard and write zeroes support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220418045314.360785-5-hch@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index c0b8a26892a5..c05138a28475 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -855,11 +855,12 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
blk_queue_io_opt(q, blk_size * opt_io_size);
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_DISCARD)) {
- q->limits.discard_granularity = blk_size;
-
virtio_cread(vdev, struct virtio_blk_config,
discard_sector_alignment, &v);
- q->limits.discard_alignment = v ? v << SECTOR_SHIFT : 0;
+ if (v)
+ q->limits.discard_granularity = v << SECTOR_SHIFT;
+ else
+ q->limits.discard_granularity = blk_size;
virtio_cread(vdev, struct virtio_blk_config,
max_discard_sectors, &v);
