From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>,
Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>,
linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 16:19:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250106151938.GA27324@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250106151607.954940-1-hch@lst.de>
Document the new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN flag and the new
stx_dio_read_offset_align field guarded by it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
man/man2/statx.2 | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/statx.2 b/man/man2/statx.2
index c5b5a28ec2f1..378bf363d93f 100644
--- a/man/man2/statx.2
+++ b/man/man2/statx.2
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ struct statx {
__u32 stx_atomic_write_unit_min;
__u32 stx_atomic_write_unit_max;
__u32 stx_atomic_write_segments_max;
+
+ /* File offset alignment for direct I/O reads */
+ __u32 stx_dio_read_offset_align;
};
.EE
.in
@@ -261,7 +264,7 @@ STATX_BTIME Want stx_btime
STATX_ALL The same as STATX_BASIC_STATS | STATX_BTIME.
It is deprecated and should not be used.
STATX_MNT_ID Want stx_mnt_id (since Linux 5.8)
-STATX_DIOALIGN Want stx_dio_mem_align and stx_dio_offset_align
+STATX_DIOALIGN Want stx_dio_mem_align and stx_dio_offset_align.
(since Linux 6.1; support varies by filesystem)
STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE Want unique stx_mnt_id (since Linux 6.8)
STATX_SUBVOL Want stx_subvol
@@ -270,6 +273,8 @@ STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC Want stx_atomic_write_unit_min,
stx_atomic_write_unit_max,
and stx_atomic_write_segments_max.
(since Linux 6.11; support varies by filesystem)
+STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Want stx_dio_read_offset_align.
+ (since Linux 6.14; support varies by filesystem)
.TE
.in
.P
@@ -467,6 +472,26 @@ This will only be nonzero if
.I stx_dio_mem_align
is nonzero, and vice versa.
.TP
+.I stx_dio_read_offset_align
+The alignment (in bytes) required for file offsets and I/O segment lengths for
+direct I/O reads
+.RB ( O_DIRECT )
+on this file. If zero the limit in
+.I
+stx_dio_offset_align
+applies for reads as well. If non-zero this value must be
+smaller than
+.I
+stx_dio_offset_align
+which must be provided by the file system.
+This value does not affect the memory alignent in
+.I stx_dio_mem_align .
+.IP
+.B STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN
+.I ( stx_dio_offset_align )
+support by filesystem;
+it is supported by xfs since Linux 6.14.
+.TP
.I stx_subvol
Subvolume number of the current file.
.IP
--
2.45.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-06 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-06 15:15 add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs: reformat the statx definition Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 16:28 ` Jan Kara
2025-01-06 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 16:32 ` Jan Kara
2025-01-06 16:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 15:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: cleanup xfs_vn_getattr Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 17:07 ` John Garry
2025-01-06 15:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: report the correct read/write dio alignment for reflinked inodes Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 17:33 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-06 18:37 ` John Garry
2025-01-07 6:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-07 7:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-07 9:00 ` John Garry
2025-01-06 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-01-06 17:40 ` [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-06 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-06 19:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-06 22:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-01-08 8:55 add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN v2 Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-08 8:59 ` [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-08 17:27 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-09 8:31 add STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN v3 Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-09 8:32 ` [PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-09 13:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
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