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

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

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@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.

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.

Thanks, Roger.