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ext4: enable block size larger than page size

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, block sizes larger than the page size are currently supported
only when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled. To make this explicit,
a blocksize_gt_pagesize entry has been added under /sys/fs/ext4/feature/,
indicating whether bs > ps is supported. This allows mke2fs to check the
interface and determine whether a warning should be issued when formatting
a filesystem with block size larger than the page size.

Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <20251121090654.631996-25-libaokun@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

authored by

Baokun Li and committed by
Theodore Ts'o
cab8cbcb 709f0f1f

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fs/ext4/super.c
··· 7453 7453 .init_fs_context = ext4_init_fs_context, 7454 7454 .parameters = ext4_param_specs, 7455 7455 .kill_sb = ext4_kill_sb, 7456 - .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME, 7456 + .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV | FS_ALLOW_IDMAP | FS_MGTIME | 7457 + FS_LBS, 7457 7458 }; 7458 7459 MODULE_ALIAS_FS("ext4"); 7459 7460
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fs/ext4/sysfs.c
··· 332 332 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && defined(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) 333 333 EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(encrypted_casefold); 334 334 #endif 335 + #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 336 + EXT4_ATTR_FEATURE(blocksize_gt_pagesize); 337 + #endif 335 338 336 339 static struct attribute *ext4_feat_attrs[] = { 337 340 ATTR_LIST(lazy_itable_init), ··· 354 351 ATTR_LIST(fast_commit), 355 352 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && defined(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) 356 353 ATTR_LIST(encrypted_casefold), 354 + #endif 355 + #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 356 + ATTR_LIST(blocksize_gt_pagesize), 357 357 #endif 358 358 NULL, 359 359 };