From: libaokun@huaweicloud.com
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
yi.zhang@huawei.com, yangerkun@huawei.com, libaokun1@huawei.com,
libaokun@huaweicloud.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] bdev: add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:47:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110124714.1329978-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com> (raw)
From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Support for block sizes greater than the page size depends on large
folios, which in turn require CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE to be enabled.
Because the code is wrapped in multiple layers of abstraction, this
dependency is rather obscure, so users may not realize it and may be
unsure how to enable LBS.
As suggested by Theodore, I have added hint messages in sb_set_blocksize
so that users can distinguish whether a mount failure with block size
larger than page size is due to lack of filesystem support or the absence
of CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110043226.GD2988753@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
---
block/bdev.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index 810707cca970..4888831acaf5 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -217,9 +217,26 @@ int set_blocksize(struct file *file, int size)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_blocksize);
+static int sb_validate_large_blocksize(struct super_block *sb, int size)
+{
+ const char *err_str = NULL;
+
+ if (!(sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_LBS))
+ err_str = "not supported by filesystem";
+ else if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
+ err_str = "is only supported with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE";
+
+ if (!err_str)
+ return 0;
+
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: block size(%d) > page size(%lu) %s\n",
+ sb->s_type->name, size, PAGE_SIZE, err_str);
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
int sb_set_blocksize(struct super_block *sb, int size)
{
- if (!(sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_LBS) && size > PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (size > PAGE_SIZE && sb_validate_large_blocksize(sb, size))
return 0;
if (set_blocksize(sb->s_bdev_file, size))
return 0;
--
2.46.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-10 12:47 libaokun [this message]
2025-11-10 13:15 ` [PATCH] bdev: add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP Jan Kara
2025-11-10 14:13 ` Zhang Yi
2025-11-11 9:43 ` Christian Brauner
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