On 2/2/24 15:30, Damien Le Moal wrote:
Zone append operations are only allowed to target sequential write required zones. blk_check_zone_append() uses bio_zone_is_seq() to check this. However, this check is not necessary because: 1) For NVMe ZNS namespace devices, only sequential write required zones exist, making the zone type check useless. 2) For null_blk, the driver will fail the request anyway, thus notifying the user that a conventional zone was targeted. 3) For all other zoned devices, zone append is now emulated using zone write plugging, which checks that a zone append operation does not target a conventional zone.In preparation for the removal of zone write locking and its conventional zone bitmap (used by bio_zone_is_seq()), remove the bio_zone_is_seq() call from blk_check_zone_append(). Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlem...@kernel.org> --- block/blk-core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Kernel Storage Architect h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE Software Solutions GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg HRB 36809 (AG Nürnberg), GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich
