Linux blkfront expects both "discard-granularity" and
"discard-alignment" present on xenbus in order to properly enable the
feature, not exposing "discard-alignment" left some Linux blkfront
versions with a broken discard setup. This has also been addressed in
Linux with:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
20210118151528.81668-1-roger.pau@citrix.com/T/#u
Fix QEMU to report a "discard-alignment" of 0, in order for it to work
with older Linux frontends.
Reported-by: Arthur Borsboom <arthurborsboom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Message-Id: <
20210118153330.82324-1-roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
xen_device_backend_printf(xendev, "feature-discard", "%u", 1);
xen_device_backend_printf(xendev, "discard-granularity", "%u",
conf->discard_granularity);
+ xen_device_backend_printf(xendev, "discard-alignment", "%u", 0);
}
xen_device_backend_printf(xendev, "feature-flush-cache", "%u", 1);