linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] vfs: support STATX

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Date:   Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:48:08 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] vfs: support STATX_DIOALIGN on block devices

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 01:15:00PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> +/* Handle STATX_DIOALIGN for block devices. */
> +static inline void handle_bdev_dioalign(struct path *path, u32 request_mask,
> +					struct kstat *stat)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
> +	struct inode *inode;
> +	struct block_device *bdev;
> +	unsigned int lbs;
> +
> +	if (likely(!(request_mask & STATX_DIOALIGN)))
> +		return;
> +
> +	inode = d_backing_inode(path->dentry);
> +	if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
> +		return;
> +
> +	bdev = blkdev_get_no_open(inode->i_rdev);
> +	if (!bdev)
> +		return;
> +
> +	lbs = bdev_logical_block_size(bdev);
> +	stat->dio_mem_align = lbs;
> +	stat->dio_offset_align = lbs;
> +	stat->result_mask |= STATX_DIOALIGN;
> +
> +	blkdev_put_no_open(bdev);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
> +}

This helper should go into block/bdev.c with the STATX_DIOALIGN and
S_ISBLK checks lifted into the caller.  I'd also pass just the inode
here.

Note that this also needs to account for the reduced memory alignment
that landed in the block tree eventually.