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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] block: Expose host block dev I/O size limit in


From: Fam Zheng
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] block: Expose host block dev I/O size limit in scsi-block/scsi-generic
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:15:03 +0800

Host devices passed through as scsi-block or scsi-generic may have a compound
maximum I/O limit (out of physical hardware limit, driver quirks and file
system configuration, etc) that is presented in the sysfs entry. SG_IOs we
issue should respect this. However the value is currently not discoverable by
guest, because the vHBA (virtio-scsi) would present an fixed emulated limit,
while the INQUIRY (vpd=0xb0, block limits page) response solely speaks for the
LUN itself, not the host kernel. The issue is observed on scsi passthrough of
host usb or dm-multipath disks, and it is not specific to certain device types.

The proposed solution is collecting the host sysfs limit in raw-posix driver
when a block device is used, and intercepting INQUIRY response to clip the
max xfer len field.

This fixes booting a SanDisk usb-key with an upstream kernel.  The usb disk
reports a nonsense large value in INQUIRY, while the host (usb quirk?) only
allows 120KB.


Fam Zheng (2):
  raw-posix: Fetch max sectors for host block device from sysfs
  scsi-generic: Merge block max xfer len in INQUIRY response

 block/raw-posix.c      | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)

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2.8.2




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