[PATCH] ata: pata_macio: Fix max_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jun 7 13:10:25 AEST 2024
Niklas Cassel <cassel at kernel.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 09:14:45PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> The pata_macio driver advertises a max_segment_size of 0xff00, because
>> the hardware doesn't cope with requests >= 64K.
>>
>> However the SCSI core requires max_segment_size to be at least
>> PAGE_SIZE, which is a problem for pata_macio when the kernel is built
>> with 64K pages.
>>
>> In older kernels the SCSI core would just increase the segment size to
>> be equal to PAGE_SIZE, however since the commit tagged below it causes a
>> warning and the device fails to probe:
>>
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 26 at block/blk-settings.c:202 .blk_validate_limits+0x2f8/0x35c
>> CPU: 0 PID: 26 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1 #1
>> Hardware name: PowerMac7,2 PPC970 0x390202 PowerMac
>> ...
>> NIP .blk_validate_limits+0x2f8/0x35c
>> LR .blk_alloc_queue+0xc0/0x2f8
>> Call Trace:
>> .blk_alloc_queue+0xc0/0x2f8
>> .blk_mq_alloc_queue+0x60/0xf8
>> .scsi_alloc_sdev+0x208/0x3c0
>> .scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x314/0x52c
>> .__scsi_add_device+0x170/0x1a4
>> .ata_scsi_scan_host+0x2bc/0x3e4
>> .async_port_probe+0x6c/0xa0
>> .async_run_entry_fn+0x60/0x1bc
>> .process_one_work+0x228/0x510
>> .worker_thread+0x360/0x530
>> .kthread+0x134/0x13c
>> .start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14
>> ...
>> scsi_alloc_sdev: Allocation failure during SCSI scanning, some SCSI devices might not be configured
>>
>> Although the hardware can't cope with a 64K segment, the driver
>> already deals with that internally by splitting large requests in
>> pata_macio_qc_prep(). That is how the driver has managed to function
>> until now on 64K kernels.
>>
>> So fix the driver to advertise a max_segment_size of 64K, which avoids
>> the warning and keeps the SCSI core happy.
>>
>> Fixes: afd53a3d8528 ("scsi: core: Initialize scsi midlayer limits before allocating the queue")
>> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ce2bf6af-4382-4fe1-b392-cc6829f5ceb2@roeck-us.net/
>> Reported-by: Doru Iorgulescu <doru.iorgulescu1 at gmail.com>
>> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218858
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
>> ---
>
> Applied to libata/for-6.10-fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux.git/log/?h=for-6.10-fixes
>
> With John's Reviewed-by from the other thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/171362345502.571343.9746199181827642774.b4-ty@oracle.com/T/#t
Thanks.
cheers
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