Re: [PATCH v2 24/24] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

From: Jan Kara

Date: Mon Nov 10 2025 - 05:07:27 EST


On Fri 07-11-25 22:42:49, libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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 add the FS_LBS bit to fs_flags.
>
> In addition, allocation failures for large folios may trigger warn_alloc()
> warnings. Therefore, as with XFS, mark this feature as experimental.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 6735152dd219..1fbbae5a0426 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -5074,6 +5074,9 @@ 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;
> }
>
> @@ -7453,7 +7456,8 @@ 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");
>
> --
> 2.46.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR