From: Maximilian Heyne mheyne@amazon.de
In some use cases[1], the backend is created while the frontend doesn't support the persistent grants feature, but later the frontend can be changed to support the feature and reconnect. In the past, 'blkback' enabled the persistent grants feature since it unconditionally checked if frontend supports the persistent grants feature for every connect ('connect_ring()') and decided whether it should use persistent grans or not.
However, commit aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants") has mistakenly changed the behavior. It made the frontend feature support check to not be repeated once it shown the 'feature_persistent' as 'false', or the frontend doesn't support persistent grants.
This commit changes the behavior of the parameter to make effect for every connect, so that the previous workflow can work again as expected.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/CAJwUmVB6H3iTs-C+U=v-pwJB7-_ZRHPxHzKRJZ22x...
Reported-by: Andrii Chepurnyi andrii.chepurnyi82@gmail.com Fixes: aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10.x Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne mheyne@amazon.de Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback | 2 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 9 +++------ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback index 7faf719af165..fac0f429a869 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xen-blkback @@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ KernelVersion: 5.10 Contact: Maximilian Heyne mheyne@amazon.de Description: Whether to enable the persistent grants feature or not. Note - that this option only takes effect on newly created backends. + that this option only takes effect on newly connected backends. The default is Y (enable). diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c index 16c6785d260c..ee7ad2fb432d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -186,8 +186,6 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid) __module_get(THIS_MODULE); INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free);
- blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent; - return blkif; }
@@ -1086,10 +1084,9 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be) xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "unknown fe protocol %s", protocol); return -ENOSYS; } - if (blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent) - blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = - xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, - "feature-persistent", 0); + + blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent && + xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, "feature-persistent", 0);
blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;