[f2fs-dev] [PATCH 00/20] f2fs: support block size smaller than PAGE_SIZE

[Daeho Jeong <daeho43@gmail.com>]

From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>

F2FS has required the filesystem block size to equal PAGE_SIZE. On a
kernel with 16KB pages, this means an existing F2FS image with 4KB
blocks cannot be mounted, e.g. the userdata partition of an Android
device that moves from a 4KB page kernel to a 16KB page kernel.

This series lets F2FS mount and use a filesystem whose block size is
smaller than PAGE_SIZE, such as 4KB blocks on a 16KB page kernel. The
on-disk format does not change.

With subpage blocks, even an order-0 folio holds several blocks, so
the series builds on the large folio support from Nanzhe Zhao [1] and
tracks uptodate and dirty state per block in f2fs_folio_state for any
folio that holds more than one block. Most paths then work in blocks
instead of pages:

- Patches 1-2 convert the remaining page based index and size
  calculations to block based ones, and add the superblock and mount
  infrastructure. Subpage block sizes are still rejected at this
  point.
- Patch 3 extends f2fs_folio_state with per-block state, identified by
  a magic number, and allocates it on demand with __GFP_NOFAIL.
- Patches 4-7 handle directories, the per-inode dirty counters, the
  read path and GC, and the write path and writeback per block.
- Patches 8-19 adapt the remaining features: range operations and
  mmap, pinned files, collapse/insert range, move range,
  defragmentation, swapfile, fs-verity, atomic writes, inline data,
  online resize and compression, and remove the -EOPNOTSUPP checks
  that patch 2 added for the features that need them.
- Patch 20 stops rejecting subpage block sizes.

When the block size equals PAGE_SIZE, the behavior does not change,
except for the fixes noted in the individual patches, some of which
also apply to large folios.

A few of the patches adjust code from the large folio series [1]:

- f2fs_folio_has_ffs() checks the folio state magic instead of
  requiring a large folio, since order-0 multi-block folios also carry
  a folio state, and the page private flags can legitimately be set
  before a state is attached.
- f2fs_ffs_find_or_alloc() cannot fail with __GFP_NOFAIL, so the NULL
  checks of its result in f2fs_get_lock_data_folio() and
  redirty_blocks() are removed.
- Defragmentation and swapfile activation mark only the target block
  dirty instead of the whole page.
- redirty_blocks() does not dirty the blocks past EOF.

Testing:

Built every patch for x86_64 and arm64 (16KB pages), and the whole
series for arm (32-bit).

Ran the xfstests auto group (excluding the clone, dedupe and thin
groups) on arm64 QEMU with mount options "discard,fsync_mode=strict"
in these combinations of page size / block size:

- 16KB/4KB:  default, compression (lz4, zstd, lz4hc, lzo-rle with
             64KB clusters and checksum), compression+encryption,
             encryption+verity, mode=lfs, atgc
- 4KB/4KB:   default, compression, encryption+verity,
             compression+encryption, mode=lfs
- 16KB/16KB: default, compression, encryption+verity,
             compression+encryption, mode=lfs

plus generic/019, 521 and 522 for each combination, and a 24 hour
power-off recovery test with fsstress for each of the three
combinations.

There were no crashes or hangs, and the power-off recovery tests found
no corruption.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20261028154407.1601430-1-nzzhao.sigma@gmail.com/

Daeho Jeong (20):
  f2fs: use block-based index and size calculations in remaining paths
  f2fs: support subpage block size superblock and mount
  f2fs: extend f2fs_folio_state for subpage blocks
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in directory operations
  f2fs: convert inode dirty page counters to dirty block counters
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in data read path and GC
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in data write path and writeback
  f2fs: adapt range operations and mmap for subpage blocks
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in pinned files
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in collapse and insert range
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in move range
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in defragmentation
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in swapfile activation
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in fs-verity enablement
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in atomic writes
  f2fs: preserve inline data in subpage block mode
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in online resize
  f2fs: support subpage blocks in compression
  f2fs: count compress cache entries in pages for its memory limit
  f2fs: enable subpage block size support

 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c    |   41 +-
 fs/f2fs/compress.c      |  518 +++++++++----
 fs/f2fs/data.c          | 1552 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 fs/f2fs/dir.c           |  124 +++-
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h          |  225 ++++--
 fs/f2fs/file.c          |  553 ++++++++------
 fs/f2fs/gc.c            |   89 ++-
 fs/f2fs/inline.c        |   13 +-
 fs/f2fs/inode.c         |    4 +-
 fs/f2fs/node.c          |   17 +-
 fs/f2fs/segment.c       |    7 +-
 fs/f2fs/super.c         |  162 ++--
 fs/f2fs/verity.c        |    5 -
 include/linux/f2fs_fs.h |    1 +
 14 files changed, 2078 insertions(+), 1233 deletions(-)


base-commit: 4c5e07aaeeb8a27d769a7e4e13d0b26aea0cb108
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