Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: don't make discard-alignment mandatory

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 19.01.21 11:06, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:43:01AM +0100, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> > On 18.01.21 16:15, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > > Don't require the discard-alignment xenstore node to be present in
> > > order to correctly setup the feature. This can happen with versions of
> > > QEMU that only write the discard-granularity but not the
> > > discard-alignment node.
> > >
> > > Assume discard-alignment is 0 if not present. While there also fix the
> > > logic to not enable the discard feature if discard-granularity is not
> > > present.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Arthur Borsboom <arthurborsboom@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Arthur Borsboom <arthurborsboom@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >    drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
> > >    1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > > index 5265975b3fba..5a93f7cc2939 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > > @@ -2179,22 +2179,23 @@ static void blkfront_closing(struct blkfront_info *info)
> > >    static void blkfront_setup_discard(struct blkfront_info *info)
> > >    {
> > > -       int err;
> > > -       unsigned int discard_granularity;
> > > -       unsigned int discard_alignment;
> > > +       unsigned int discard_granularity = 0;
> > > +       unsigned int discard_alignment = 0;
> > > +       unsigned int discard_secure = 0;
> > > -       info->feature_discard = 1;
> > > -       err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
> > > +       xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
> > >                 "discard-granularity", "%u", &discard_granularity,
> > >                 "discard-alignment", "%u", &discard_alignment,
> > > +               "discard-secure", "%u", &discard_secure,
> > >                 NULL);
> > This would mean that "discard-secure" will be evaluated only if the
> > other two items are set in Xenstore. From blkif.h I can't see this is
> > required, and your patch is modifying today's behavior in this regard.
> >
> > You might want to have three xenbus_read_unsigned() calls instead.
> You are right, discard-secure should be fetched regardless of whether
> discard-alignment exists.
>
> I can fetch discard-granularity and discard-alignment using
> xenbus_gather and keep discard-secure using xenbus_read_unsigned. Let
> me send a new version.
I'm still not convinced this is correct. blkif.h doesn't mention that
discard-alignment will be valid only with discard-granularity being
present.


Juergen

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