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bhyve: virtio DISCARD doesn't work for 'sectorsize=512/4096'
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Authored by gusev.vitaliy_gmail.com on Nov 3 2020, 1:58 PM.
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Summary

If bhyve is used to emulate 512e access in guest OS, then discard addresses should be properly aligned. Otherwise ioctl DIOCGDELETE fails with 4K geom devices (look at g_dev_ioctl() in sys/geom/geom_dev.c).

So take into account the physical sector size as well.

Test Plan

Assign zvol with 4K volblocksize via geom to VM with different sector size argument: 512/4096, 4096/4096, etc.

All cases work fine with patch.

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