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uml: limit request size on COWed devices
authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:38:58 +0000 (23:38 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:27:41 +0000 (14:27 -0700)
COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one request
due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the io_thread_req.

Enforce that by telling the block layer not to put too many sectors in
requests to COWed devices.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c

index 2e09f162c42f01b6ac39f3689eae208f5d4b75b1..c6acc1a3968c9d47f9cf5fb3edb44d6e65bda810 100644 (file)
@@ -712,6 +712,8 @@ static int ubd_add(int n, char **error_out)
        ubd_dev->queue->queuedata = ubd_dev;
 
        blk_queue_max_hw_segments(ubd_dev->queue, MAX_SG);
+       if(ubd_dev->cow.file != NULL)
+               blk_queue_max_sectors(ubd_dev->queue, 8 * sizeof(long));
        err = ubd_disk_register(MAJOR_NR, ubd_dev->size, n, &ubd_gendisk[n]);
        if(err){
                *error_out = "Failed to register device";