linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] erofs: avoid hardcoded blocksize for subpage block support

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Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:08:17 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>, xiang@...nel.org,
        huyue2@...lpad.com, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] erofs: avoid hardcoded blocksize for subpage block
 support

On 2023/3/13 21:53, Jingbo Xu wrote:
> As the first step of converting hardcoded blocksize to that specified in
> on-disk superblock, convert all call sites of hardcoded blocksize to
> sb->s_blocksize except for:
> 
> 1) use sbi->blkszbits instead of sb->s_blocksize in
> erofs_superblock_csum_verify() since sb->s_blocksize has not been
> updated with the on-disk blocksize yet when the function is called.
> 
> 2) use inode->i_blkbits instead of sb->s_blocksize in erofs_bread(),
> since the inode operated on may be an anonymous inode in fscache mode.
> Currently the anonymous inode is allocated from an anonymous mount
> maintained in erofs, while in the near future we may allocate anonymous
> inodes from a generic API directly and thus have no access to the
> anonymous inode's i_sb.  Thus we keep the block size in i_blkbits for
> anonymous inodes in fscache mode.
> 
> Be noted that this patch only gets rid of the hardcoded blocksize, in
> preparation for actually setting the on-disk block size in the following
> patch.  The hard limit of constraining the block size to PAGE_SIZE still
> exists until the next patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@...lpad.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,