[PATCH v3] Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
From: raoxu
Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 01:33:11 EST
From: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
zloop divides the requested capacity by the zone size to determine the
number of zones. Since it uses one zone size for all zones, a smaller last
zone is not supported and an unaligned capacity is rounded down.
The capacity_mb description incorrectly states that the capacity is rounded
up. Correct it to document the actual behavior.
Fixes: 9e4f11c1228c ("Documentation: Document the new zoned loop block device driver")
Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Replace the code change with a documentation correction.
- State that a smaller last zone is unsupported and that an unaligned
capacity is rounded down.
Changes in v3:
- Reword the capacity_mb description as suggested by Damien.
Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst
index f4f1f3121bf9..abaf36f21945 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ follows.
=================== =========================================================
id Device number (the X in /dev/zloopX).
Default: automatically assigned.
-capacity_mb Device total capacity in MiB. This is always rounded up
- to the nearest higher multiple of the zone size.
+capacity_mb Device total capacity in MiB. A smaller last zone is not
+ supported, so a capacity value that is not a multiple of
+ the zone size is rounded down to the closest multiple of
+ the zone size.
Default: 16384 MiB (16 GiB).
zone_size_mb Device zone size in MiB. Default: 256 MiB.
zone_capacity_mb Device zone capacity (must always be equal to or lower
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2.50.1