ext4: enable block size larger than page size

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Since block device (See commit 3c20917120 ("block/bdev: enable large
folio support for large logical block sizes")) and page cache (See commit
ab95d23bab ("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 7ac67301e8 ("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>

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Baokun Li 2025-11-21 17:06:54 +08:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o

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