Re: [PATCH] fs/buffer: use min folio order to calculate upper limit in __getblk_slow()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Jun 18 2025 - 11:40:35 EST


On Wed 18-06-25 11:17:10, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> The maximum IO size that a block device can read as a single block is
> based on the min folio order and not the PAGE_SIZE as we have bs > ps
> support for block devices[1].
>
> Calculate the upper limit based on the on min folio order.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20250221223823.1680616-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>

...

> ---
> I found this while I was adding bs > ps support to ext4. Ext4 uses this
> routine to read the superblock.
>
> fs/buffer.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 8cf4a1dc481e..98f90da69a0a 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -1121,10 +1121,11 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
> unsigned size, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> bool blocking = gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp);
> + int blocklog = PAGE_SHIFT + mapping_min_folio_order(bdev->bd_mapping);
>
> /* Size must be multiple of hard sectorsize */
> - if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)-1) ||
> - (size < 512 || size > PAGE_SIZE))) {
> + if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1) ||
> + (size < 512 || size > (1U << blocklog)))) {

So this doesn't quite make sense to me. Shouldn't it be capped from above
by PAGE_SIZE << mapping_max_folio_order(bdev->bd_mapping)?

Honza


> printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): invalid block size %d requested\n",
> size);
> printk(KERN_ERR "logical block size: %d\n",
>
> base-commit: e04c78d86a9699d136910cfc0bdcf01087e3267e
> --
> 2.49.0
>
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR