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authorKarel Zak2015-06-18 11:55:29 +0200
committerKarel Zak2015-06-18 11:55:29 +0200
commitacb7651f8897ae73d0f45dd75bc87630001c61b9 (patch)
tree656e32f6363e93b66fc99b4d6c76a8921d525e71
parentsfdisk: improve some formatting and wording in the man page (diff)
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libfdisk: ignore misaligned optimal I/O size
For example: # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1000 opt_blks=65535 physblk_exp=3 creates a disk with: Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes where 33553920 % 4096 != 0, it means that use Optimal I/O size to align partition results that partition is not aligned to physical sector boundary. Reported-by: Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--libfdisk/src/alignment.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libfdisk/src/alignment.c b/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
index c658a5bee..1e1d07cfa 100644
--- a/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
+++ b/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ int fdisk_save_user_geometry(struct fdisk_context *cxt,
*
* Save user defined sector sizes to use it for partitioning.
*
- * The user properties are applied by fdisk_assign_device() or
+ * The user properties are applied by fdisk_assign_device() or
* fdisk_reset_device_properties().
*
* Returns: <0 on error, 0 on success.
@@ -475,8 +475,17 @@ int fdisk_discover_topology(struct fdisk_context *cxt)
/* I/O size used by fdisk */
cxt->io_size = cxt->optimal_io_size;
if (!cxt->io_size)
- /* optimal IO is optional, default to minimum IO */
+ /* optimal I/O is optional, default to minimum IO */
cxt->io_size = cxt->min_io_size;
+
+ /* ignore optimal I/O if not aligned to phy.sector size */
+ if (cxt->io_size
+ && cxt->phy_sector_size
+ && (cxt->io_size % cxt->phy_sector_size) != 0) {
+ DBG(CXT, ul_debugobj(cxt, "ignore misaligned I/O size"));
+ cxt->io_size = cxt->phy_sector_size;
+ }
+
}
}
blkid_free_probe(pr);
@@ -494,7 +503,7 @@ int fdisk_discover_topology(struct fdisk_context *cxt)
DBG(CXT, ul_debugobj(cxt, "result: log/phy sector size: %ld/%ld",
cxt->sector_size, cxt->phy_sector_size));
- DBG(CXT, ul_debugobj(cxt, "result: fdisk/min/optimal io: %ld/%ld/%ld",
+ DBG(CXT, ul_debugobj(cxt, "result: fdisk/optimal/minimal io: %ld/%ld/%ld",
cxt->io_size, cxt->optimal_io_size, cxt->min_io_size));
return 0;
}