From: "Ionut Nechita (Wind River)" <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
To: "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: ahuang12@lenovo.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com, hch@lst.de,
iommu@lists.linux.dev, ionut_n2001@yahoo.com,
john.g.garry@oracle.com, kbusch@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, m.szyprowski@samsung.com,
robin.murphy@arm.com, sagi@grimberg.me, stable@vger.kernel.org,
sunlightlinux@gmail.com,
"Ionut Nechita (Wind River)" <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] scsi: sas: skip opt_sectors when DMA reports no real optimization hint
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:05:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318200532.51232-2-ionut.nechita@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260318200532.51232-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
sas_host_setup() unconditionally sets shost->opt_sectors from
dma_opt_mapping_size(). When the IOMMU is disabled or in passthrough
mode and no DMA ops provide an opt_mapping_size callback,
dma_opt_mapping_size() returns min(dma_max_mapping_size(), SIZE_MAX)
which equals dma_max_mapping_size() — a hard upper bound, not an
optimization hint.
On a Dell PowerEdge R750 with mpt3sas (Broadcom SAS3816, FW 33.15.00.00)
and intel_iommu=off the following values are observed:
dma_opt_mapping_size() = dma_max_mapping_size() (no real hint)
shost->max_sectors = 32767
opt_sectors = min(32767, huge >> 9) = 32767
optimal_io_size = 32767 << 9 = 16776704
→ round_down(16776704, 4096) = 16773120
The SAS disk (SAMSUNG MZILT800HBHQ0D3) do not report an
Optimal Transfer Length in VPD page B0,so sdkp->opt_xfer_blocks remains 0.
sd_revalidate_disk() then uses min_not_zero(0, opt_sectors) = opt_sectors,
propagating the bogus value into the block device's optimal_io_size
(visible as OPT-IO = 16773120 in lsblk --topology).
mkfs.xfs picks up optimal_io_size and minimum_io_size and computes:
swidth = 16773120 / 4096 = 4095
sunit = 8192 / 4096 = 2
Since 4095 % 2 != 0, XFS rejects the geometry:
SB stripe unit sanity check failed
This makes it impossible to create XFS filesystems (e.g. for
/var/lib/docker) during system bootstrap.
Fix this by introducing a sas_dma_opt_sectors() helper that only returns
a non-zero opt_sectors when dma_opt_mapping_size() is strictly less than
dma_max_mapping_size(), indicating a genuine DMA optimization constraint
from an IOMMU or DMA ops backend. The helper also rounds the value down
to a power of two so that filesystem geometry calculations always produce
clean results. When the two DMA values are equal, no backend provided a
real hint, so opt_sectors stays at 0 ("no preference").
Fixes: 4cbfca5f7750 ("scsi: scsi_transport_sas: cap shost opt_sectors according to DMA optimal limit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ionut Nechita <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
index 12124f9d5ccd..c2424cf144b4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -222,6 +223,34 @@ static int sas_bsg_initialize(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct sas_rphy *rphy)
* SAS host attributes
*/
+/**
+ * sas_dma_opt_sectors - derive opt_sectors from DMA optimal mapping size
+ * @dma_dev: device to query DMA parameters for
+ * @max_sectors: upper bound from the host adapter
+ *
+ * When the DMA layer reports a genuine optimization constraint (i.e.
+ * dma_opt_mapping_size() < dma_max_mapping_size()), convert it to a
+ * sector count, round it down to a power of two so that filesystem
+ * geometry calculations stay sane, and cap it at @max_sectors.
+ *
+ * When the two values are equal no backend provided a real hint and
+ * the function returns 0 ("no preference").
+ */
+static unsigned int sas_dma_opt_sectors(struct device *dma_dev,
+ unsigned int max_sectors)
+{
+ size_t opt = dma_opt_mapping_size(dma_dev);
+ unsigned int opt_sectors;
+
+ if (opt >= dma_max_mapping_size(dma_dev))
+ return 0;
+
+ opt = rounddown_pow_of_two(opt);
+ opt_sectors = opt >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
+
+ return min(opt_sectors, max_sectors);
+}
+
static int sas_host_setup(struct transport_container *tc, struct device *dev,
struct device *cdev)
{
@@ -239,10 +268,9 @@ static int sas_host_setup(struct transport_container *tc, struct device *dev,
dev_printk(KERN_ERR, dev, "fail to a bsg device %d\n",
shost->host_no);
- if (dma_dev->dma_mask) {
- shost->opt_sectors = min_t(unsigned int, shost->max_sectors,
- dma_opt_mapping_size(dma_dev) >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
- }
+ if (dma_dev->dma_mask)
+ shost->opt_sectors = sas_dma_opt_sectors(dma_dev,
+ shost->max_sectors);
return 0;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 20:05 [PATCH v3 0/1] scsi: sas: fix mkfs.xfs failure due to bogus optimal_io_size Ionut Nechita (Wind River)
2026-03-18 20:05 ` Ionut Nechita (Wind River) [this message]
2026-03-19 3:27 ` [PATCH v3] scsi: sas: skip opt_sectors when DMA reports no real optimization hint Damien Le Moal
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