[PATCH] docs/power: note Btrfs limitation with FIBMAP for swap file offset
From: Arun Rao Balappa
Date: Tue May 12 2026 - 02:43:58 EST
On Btrfs, the FIBMAP ioctl does not return physical block addresses.
Tools such as filefrag therefore cannot determine the correct swap file
offset for use as resume_offset. Document the correct btrfs-progs
command to use instead.
Signed-off-by: Arun Rao Balappa <arunraobalappa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst b/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
index a33a2919d..44ffe02b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ FIBMAP ioctl and determine the location of the file's swap header, as the
offset, in <PAGE_SIZE> units, from the beginning of the partition which
holds the swap file.
+.. note::
+
+ On Btrfs, the FIBMAP ioctl does not return physical block addresses, so
+ tools such as ``filefrag`` cannot be used to determine the correct offset.
+ On Btrfs, use btrfs-progs instead::
+
+ btrfs inspect-internal map-swapfile -r <swap_file_path>
+
3) Add the following parameters to the kernel command line::
resume=<swap_file_partition> resume_offset=<swap_file_offset>
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