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pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger than page size 

The Linux VM subsystem can't support block sizes larger than page size
for block based filesystems very well.  While this can be hacked around
to some extent for simple filesystems the read-modify-write cycles
required for pnfs block invalid extents are extremly deadlock prone
when operating on multiple pages.  Reject this case early on instead
of pretending to support it (badly).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Christoph Hellwig 2014-08-21 11:09:26 -05:00 committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 5f919c9f10
commit e3aaf7f2b8
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
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@ -1115,6 +1115,12 @@ bl_set_layoutdriver(struct nfs_server *server, const struct nfs_fh *fh)
dprintk("%s Server did not return blksize\n", __func__);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (server->pnfs_blksize > PAGE_SIZE) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: pNFS blksize %d not supported.\n",
__func__, server->pnfs_blksize);
return -EINVAL;
}
b_mt_id = kzalloc(sizeof(struct block_mount_id), GFP_NOFS);
if (!b_mt_id) {
status = -ENOMEM;