Commit d82ae52e authored Oct 18, 2013 by Mike Snitzer Committed by Jens Axboe Nov 08, 2013

block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device



Without this patch all DM devices will default to BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE
(65536) even if the underlying device(s) have a larger value -- this is
due to blk_stack_limits() using min_not_zero() when stacking the
max_segment_size limit.

1073741824

before patch:
65536

after patch:
1073741824

Reported-by: Lukasz Flis <l.flis@cyfronet.pl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.3+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

parent 7c8a3679

block/blk-settings.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ void blk_set_stacking_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
		lim->discard_zeroes_data = 1;
		lim->max_segments = USHRT_MAX;
		lim->max_hw_sectors = UINT_MAX;
		lim->max_segment_size = UINT_MAX;
		lim->max_sectors = UINT_MAX;
		lim->max_write_same_sectors = UINT_MAX;
		}

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