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SubjectRe: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: don't make discard-alignment mandatory
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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@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Arthur Borsboom <arthurborsboom@gmail.com>
> ---
> 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.


Juergen
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