From: John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev>
To: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: fail a short atomic bounce in bio_iov_iter_bounce_write()
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 18:41:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002d78a8-e344-45cc-9529-f2dd345a9ee4@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c7632e-52fa-4378-a15b-f90b492fe613@columbia.edu>
On 11/9/26 18:27, Tal Zussman wrote:
>> This looks reasonable, as atomic stable writes are implied to be
>> supported from 3373503df025a ("xfs: use bounce buffering direct I/O when
>> the device requires stable pages"). I am wondering how to test and prove
>> this (change is good and maintained)?
>>
> I tested this with XFS on scsi_debug (dif=1 dix=1 atomic_wr=1), doing
> 1M RWF_ATOMIC direct writes and using fail_page_alloc to make the
> folio allocations in bio_alloc_bounce_folios() fail partway through.
> I had an LLM make it pretty precise and target bio_alloc_bounce_folios()
> using the stack filtering mechanism, so I don't think this necessarily
> makes sense as an xfstest if that's what you were thinking...
>
> Without this patch, the write returns -EINVAL and hits the
> WARN_ON_ONCE() in iomap_dio_bio_iter_one(). With it, the write returns
> -EINVAL without the warning.
>
> This also happened to turn up a scsi_debug bug: with dif=1 dix=1 it
> doesn't store the protection information for WRITE ATOMIC(16), so
> reading back an atomic write fails. I'll send a separate patch for that.
ok, I'll await the patch.
>
> Does that answer your question/is that what you were getting at?
Yes, this is ok. I am really just getting at whether we can add a test
for this scenario.
Thanks,
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-08 4:24 [PATCH 0/2] block: fail short atomic bounce bios " Tal Zussman
2026-11-08 4:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: fail a short atomic bounce " Tal Zussman
2026-11-08 17:13 ` John Garry
2026-11-09 18:27 ` Tal Zussman
2026-11-09 18:41 ` John Garry [this message]
2026-11-08 4:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] iomap: remove the atomic write length check in iomap_dio_bio_iter_one() Tal Zussman
2026-11-08 17:06 ` John Garry
2026-11-09 18:34 ` Tal Zussman
2026-11-09 18:44 ` John Garry
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