Re: [PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: remove the broken zone revalidation support

[Damien Le Moal]

On 2023/12/18 1:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> virtblk_revalidate_zones is called unconditionally from
> virtblk_config_changed_work from the virtio config_changed callback.
> 
> virtblk_revalidate_zones is a bit odd in that it re-clears the zoned
> state for host aware or non-zoned devices, which isn't needed unless the
> zoned mode changed - but a zone mode change to a host managed model isn't
> handled at all, and virtio_blk also doesn't handle any other config
> change except for a capacity change is handled (and even if it was
> the upper layers above virtio_blk wouldn't handle it very well).
> 
> But even the useful case of a size change that would add or remove
> zones isn't handled properly as blk_revalidate_disk_zones expects the
> device capacity to cover all zones, but the capacity is only updated
> after virtblk_revalidate_zones.
> 
> As this code appears to be entirely untested and is getting in the way
> remove it for now, but it can be readded in a fixed version with
> proper test coverage if needed.
> 
> Fixes: 95bfec41bd3d ("virtio-blk: add support for zoned block devices")
> Fixes: f1ba4e674feb ("virtio-blk: fix to match virtio spec")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Not ideal... But I think this is OK for now given that as you say, the upper
layer will not be able to handle zone changes anyway.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 26 --------------------------
>  1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index aeead732a24dc9..a28f1687066bb4 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -722,27 +722,6 @@ static int virtblk_report_zones(struct gendisk *disk, sector_t sector,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static void virtblk_revalidate_zones(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
> -{
> -	u8 model;
> -
> -	virtio_cread(vblk->vdev, struct virtio_blk_config,
> -		     zoned.model, &model);
> -	switch (model) {
> -	default:
> -		dev_err(&vblk->vdev->dev, "unknown zone model %d\n", model);
> -		fallthrough;
> -	case VIRTIO_BLK_Z_NONE:
> -	case VIRTIO_BLK_Z_HA:
> -		disk_set_zoned(vblk->disk, BLK_ZONED_NONE);
> -		return;
> -	case VIRTIO_BLK_Z_HM:
> -		WARN_ON_ONCE(!vblk->zone_sectors);
> -		if (!blk_revalidate_disk_zones(vblk->disk, NULL))
> -			set_capacity_and_notify(vblk->disk, 0);
> -	}
> -}
> -
>  static int virtblk_probe_zoned_device(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>  				       struct virtio_blk *vblk,
>  				       struct request_queue *q)
> @@ -823,10 +802,6 @@ static int virtblk_probe_zoned_device(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>   */
>  #define virtblk_report_zones       NULL
>  
> -static inline void virtblk_revalidate_zones(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
> -{
> -}
> -
>  static inline int virtblk_probe_zoned_device(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>  			struct virtio_blk *vblk, struct request_queue *q)
>  {
> @@ -982,7 +957,6 @@ static void virtblk_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  	struct virtio_blk *vblk =
>  		container_of(work, struct virtio_blk, config_work);
>  
> -	virtblk_revalidate_zones(vblk);
>  	virtblk_update_capacity(vblk, true);
>  }
>  

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research