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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2020-10-06 14:53:06 -0400
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2020-10-14 14:16:22 +0200
commit42d3e2d041f08d1f8f078da005c936648ba77405 (patch)
treeb6dfc5cb9be2685471f5892c590e1fb5c0a4d2f5 /Documentation
parent413daa1a3f4a50af7172a862f391867711e9bc04 (diff)
virtiofs: calculate number of scatter-gather elements accurately
virtiofs currently maps various buffers in scatter gather list and it looks at number of pages (ap->pages) and assumes that same number of pages will be used both for input and output (sg_count_fuse_req()), and calculates total number of scatterlist elements accordingly. But looks like this assumption is not valid in all the cases. For example, Cai Qian reported that trinity, triggers warning with virtiofs sometimes. A closer look revealed that if one calls ioctl(fd, 0x5a004000, buf), it will trigger following warning. WARN_ON(out_sgs + in_sgs != total_sgs) In this case, total_sgs = 8, out_sgs=4, in_sgs=3. Number of pages is 2 (ap->pages), but out_sgs are using both the pages but in_sgs are using only one page. In this case, fuse_do_ioctl() sets different size values for input and output. args->in_args[args->in_numargs - 1].size == 6656 args->out_args[args->out_numargs - 1].size == 4096 So current method of calculating how many scatter-gather list elements will be used is not accurate. Make calculations more precise by parsing size and ap->descs. Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/5ea77e9f6cb8c2db43b09fbd4158ab2d8c066a0a.camel@redhat.com/ Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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