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Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.blocksize' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs blocksize updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the vfs infrastructure as well as the xfs bits to enable
support for block sizes (bs) larger than page sizes (ps) plus a few
fixes to related infrastructure.
There has been efforts over the last 16 years to enable enable Large
Block Sizes (LBS), that is block sizes in filesystems where bs > page
size. Through these efforts we have learned that one of the main
blockers to supporting bs > ps in filesystems has been a way to
allocate pages that are at least the filesystem block size on the page
cache where bs > ps.
Thanks to various previous efforts it is possible to support bs > ps
in XFS with only a few changes in XFS itself. Most changes are to the
page cache to support minimum order folio support for the target block
size on the filesystem.
A motivation for Large Block Sizes today is to support high-capacity
(large amount of Terabytes) QLC SSDs where the internal Indirection
Unit (IU) are typically greater than 4k to help reduce DRAM and so in
turn cost and space. In practice this then allows different
architectures to use a base page size of 4k while still enabling
support for block sizes aligned to the larger IUs by relying on high
order folios on the page cache when needed.
It also allows to take advantage of the drive's support for atomics
larger than 4k with buffered IO support in Linux. As described this
year at LSFMM, supporting large atomics greater than 4k enables
databases to remove the need to rely on their own journaling, so they
can disable double buffered writes, which is a feature different cloud
providers are already enabling through custom storage solutions"
* tag 'vfs-6.12.blocksize' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
Documentation: iomap: fix a typo
iomap: remove the iomap_file_buffered_write_punch_delalloc return value
iomap: pass the iomap to the punch callback
iomap: pass flags to iomap_file_buffered_write_punch_delalloc
iomap: improve shared block detection in iomap_unshare_iter
iomap: handle a post-direct I/O invalidate race in iomap_write_delalloc_release
docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes in iomap design page
filemap: fix htmldoc warning for mapping_align_index()
iomap: make zero range flush conditional on unwritten mappings
iomap: fix handling of dirty folios over unwritten extents
iomap: add a private argument for iomap_file_buffered_write
iomap: remove set_memor_ro() on zero page
xfs: enable block size larger than page size support
xfs: make the calculation generic in xfs_sb_validate_fsb_count()
xfs: expose block size in stat
xfs: use kvmalloc for xattr buffers
iomap: fix iomap_dio_zero() for fs bs > system page size
filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map_range()
mm: split a folio in minimum folio order chunks
readahead: allocate folios with mapping_min_order in readahead
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