Re: [PATCH 1/2] target: convert to/from linux 512b sectors

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On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 14:09 -0600, mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In a couple places we are not converting to/from the Linux
> block layer 512 bytes sectors.
> 
> 1.
> 
> The request queue values and what we do are a mismatch of
> things:
> 
> max_discard_sectors - This is in linux block layer 512 byte
> sectors. We are just copying this to max_unmap_lba_count.
> 
> discard_granularity - This is in bytes. We are converting it
> to Linux block layer 512 byte sectors.
> 
> discard_alignment - This is in bytes. We are just copying
> this over.
> 
> The problem is that the core LIO code exports these values in
> spc_emulate_evpd_b0 and we use them to test request arguments
> in sbc_execute_unmap, but we never convert to the block size
> we export to the initiator. If we are not using 512 byte sectors
> then we are exporting the wrong values or are checks are off.
> And, for the discard_alignment/bytes case we are just plain messed
> up.
> 
> 2.
> 
> blkdev_issue_discard's start and number of sector arguments
> are supposed to be in linux block layer 512 byte sectors. We are
> currently passing in the values we get from the initiator which
> might be based on some other sector size.
> 
> There is a similar problem in iblock_execute_write_same where
> the bio functions want values in 512 byte sectors but we are
> passing in what we got from the initiator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/target/target_core_device.c  | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/target/target_core_file.c    | 29 ++++++------------
>  drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c  | 58 +++++++++---------------------------
>  include/target/target_core_backend.h |  3 ++
>  4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
> 

Applied to target-pending/queue, and will include in the post -rc1 fixes
PULL request.

Thanks MNC.

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