[PATCH v3 07/30] block: Remember zone capacity when revalidating zones

Damien Le Moal dlemoal at kernel.org
Thu Mar 28 15:40:27 PDT 2024


On 3/29/24 06:38, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 3/27/24 5:43 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Remember the capacity of the first sequential zone and check
>> +		 * if it is constant for all zones.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (!args->zone_capacity)
>> +			args->zone_capacity = zone->capacity;
>> +		if (zone->capacity != args->zone_capacity) {
>> +			pr_warn("%s: Invalid variable zone capacity\n",
>> +				disk->disk_name);
>> +			return -ENODEV;
>> +		}
> 
> SMR disks may have a smaller last zone. Does the above code handle such
> SMR disks correctly?

SMR drives known to have a smaller last zone have a smaller conventional zone,
not a sequential zone. But good point, I will handle that on the check for
conventional zones.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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