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authorXu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com>2026-08-04 13:29:41 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-08-04 07:21:44 -0600
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Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
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 <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4659F8F0C6C328EA+20260804052942.1186727-1-raoxu@uniontech.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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=================== =========================================================
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