[PATCH v3] Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
raoxu <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:29:41 +0800
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From: Xu Rao <[email protected]> zloop divides the requested capacity by the zone size to determine the number of zones. Since it uses one zone size for all zones, a smaller last zone is not supported and an unaligned capacity is rounded down. The capacity_mb description incorrectly states that the capacity is rounded up. Correct it to document the actual behavior. Fixes: 9e4f11c1228c ("Documentation: Document the new zoned loop block device driver") Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <[email protected]> --- Changes in v2: - Replace the code change with a documentation correction. - State that a smaller last zone is unsupported and that an unaligned capacity is rounded down. Changes in v3: - Reword the capacity_mb description as suggested by Damien. Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst index f4f1f3121bf9..abaf36f21945 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst @@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ follows. =================== ========================================================= id Device number (the X in /dev/zloopX). Default: automatically assigned. -capacity_mb Device total capacity in MiB. This is always rounded up - to the nearest higher multiple of the zone size. +capacity_mb Device total capacity in MiB. A smaller last zone is not + supported, so a capacity value that is not a multiple of + the zone size is rounded down to the closest multiple of + the zone size. Default: 16384 MiB (16 GiB). zone_size_mb Device zone size in MiB. Default: 256 MiB. zone_capacity_mb Device zone capacity (must always be equal to or lower -- 2.50.1