Re: [PATCH 4/4 v4] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Boaz" == Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Boaz> Because of the direct_access() API which returns a PFN. partitions
Boaz> better start on 4K boundary, else offset ZERO of a partition will
Boaz> not be aligned and blk_direct_access() will fail the call.

Boaz> By setting blk_queue_physical_block_size(PAGE_SIZE) we can
Boaz> communicate this to fdisk and friends.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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