sd: Fix maximum I/O size for BLOCK_PC requests
Commit bcdb247c6b6a ("sd: Limit transfer length") clamped the maximum
size of an I/O request to the MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH field in the BLOCK
LIMITS VPD. This had the unfortunate effect of also limiting the maximum
size of non-filesystem requests sent to the device through sg/bsg.
Avoid using blk_queue_max_hw_sectors() and set the max_sectors queue
limit directly.
Also update the comment in blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() to clarify that
max_hw_sectors defines the limit for the I/O controller only.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index 12600bf..e0057d0 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -241,8 +241,8 @@
* Description:
* Enables a low level driver to set a hard upper limit,
* max_hw_sectors, on the size of requests. max_hw_sectors is set by
- * the device driver based upon the combined capabilities of I/O
- * controller and storage device.
+ * the device driver based upon the capabilities of the I/O
+ * controller.
*
* max_sectors is a soft limit imposed by the block layer for
* filesystem type requests. This value can be overridden on a