[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical block size

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 12:37:06 UTC 2016


On 06/17/2016 03:19 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
> construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
> logical block size.  Failure to do this causes other errors in other
> parts of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support
> partial logical block writes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com>




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