[PATCH 25/25] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

From: libaokun
Date: Fri Oct 24 2025 - 23:40:34 EST


From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

Since block device (See commit 3c20917120ce ("block/bdev: enable large
folio support for large logical block sizes")) and page cache (See commit
ab95d23bab220ef8 ("filemap: allocate mapping_min_order folios in the page
cache")) has the ability to have a minimum order when allocating folio,
and ext4 has supported large folio in commit 7ac67301e82f ("ext4: enable
large folio for regular file"), now add support for block_size > PAGE_SIZE
in ext4.

set_blocksize() -> bdev_validate_blocksize() already validates the block
size, so ext4_load_super() does not need to perform additional checks.

Here we only need to enable large folio by default when s_min_folio_order
is greater than 0 and add the FS_LBS bit to fs_flags.

In addition, mark this feature as experimental.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +++
fs/ext4/super.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 04f9380d4211..ba6cf05860ae 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5146,6 +5146,9 @@ static bool ext4_should_enable_large_folio(struct inode *inode)
if (!ext4_test_mount_flag(sb, EXT4_MF_LARGE_FOLIO))
return false;

+ if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_min_folio_order)
+ return true;
+
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
return false;
if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_JOURNAL_DATA))
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index fdc006a973aa..4c0bd79bdf68 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5053,6 +5053,9 @@ static int ext4_check_large_folio(struct super_block *sb)
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (sb->s_blocksize > PAGE_SIZE)
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "EXPERIMENTAL bs(%lu) > ps(%lu) enabled.",
+ sb->s_blocksize, PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}

@@ -7432,7 +7435,8 @@ static struct file_system_type ext4_fs_type = {
.init_fs_context = ext4_init_fs_context,
.parameters = ext4_param_specs,
.kill_sb = ext4_kill_sb,
- .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME,
+ .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME |
+ FS_LBS,
};
MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext4");

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