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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2014 01:18:30 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Torek <torek@torek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MAXPHYS in md(4)
Message-ID:  <20140421221830.GV4016@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <201404212215.s3LMFstd045652@elf.torek.net>
References:  <201404212215.s3LMFstd045652@elf.torek.net>

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:15:54PM -0600, Chris Torek wrote:
> In svn commit: r264504 - head/sys/geom/uzip we have:
>=20
>   Make sure not to do I/O for more than MAXPHYS bytes. Doing so can cause
>   problems in our providers, such as a KASSERT in md(4). ...
>=20
> That would be this one:
>=20
> 	KASSERT(bp->bio_length <=3D MAXPHYS, ("bio_length %jd",
> 	    (uintmax_t)bp->bio_length));
> 	if ((bp->bio_flags & BIO_UNMAPPED) =3D=3D 0) {
> 		pb =3D NULL;
> 		aiov.iov_base =3D bp->bio_data;
> 	} else {
> 		pb =3D getpbuf(&md_vnode_pbuf_freecnt);
> 		...
>=20
> As it happens, the KASSERT is really only required for the
> pb !=3D NULL case, which uses one of the reserved getpbuf() buffers
> that only map MAXPHYS bytes at a time.  If bp->bio_flags says that
> the bio is mapped, we just use the existing KVA, and VOP_READ() and
> VOP_WRITE() must already break up arbitrarily large transfers.
>=20
> So, it seems like the md(4) KASSERT can be moved into the "else".
> Is this a good idea?  (It might not help r264504 much since it
> looks like r264504 wants to handle short-read results anyway, but
> it seems overly restrictive to require <=3D MAXPHYS for the mapped
> cases.)

See r259198.  In fact, I considered reverting this after the r264504.

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