Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 9 authors, 2018-01-16

Re: [PATCH 25/27] block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag

From: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2017-05-10 14:06:27
Also in: dm-devel, linux-block, linux-scsi

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:46:14PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
That said, simply propagating up q->limits.max_write_zeroes_sectors as
dev_attrib->unmap_zeroes_data following existing code still looks like
the right thing to do.
It is not.  Martin has decoupled write same/zeroes support from discard
support.  Any device will claim to support it initially, and we'll
only clear the flag if a Write Same command fails.

So even if LBPRZ is not set you can trivially get into a situation
where discard is supported through UNMAP, and you'll incorrectly
set LBPRZ and will cause data corruption.
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