This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm cache: always split discards on cache block boundaries to the 3.10-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: dm-cache-always-split-discards-on-cache-block-boundaries.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f1daa838e861ae1a0fb7cd9721a21258430fcc8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:10:01 -0400 Subject: dm cache: always split discards on cache block boundaries From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f1daa838e861ae1a0fb7cd9721a21258430fcc8c upstream. The DM cache target cannot cope with discards that span multiple cache blocks, so each discard bio that spans more than one cache block must get split by the DM core. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c @@ -1954,6 +1954,8 @@ static int cache_create(struct cache_arg ti->num_discard_bios = 1; ti->discards_supported = true; ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported = true; + /* Discard bios must be split on a block boundary */ + ti->split_discard_bios = true; cache->features = ca->features; ti->per_bio_data_size = get_per_bio_data_size(cache); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/dm-cache-always-split-discards-on-cache-block-boundaries.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html