Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] loop.4: Document LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE

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On 1/6/20 8:42 AM, Yang Xu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Yang Xu. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man4/loop.4 | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man4/loop.4 b/man4/loop.4
> index afb1d05c5..9fd2b3eb4 100644
> --- a/man4/loop.4
> +++ b/man4/loop.4
> @@ -159,6 +159,13 @@ Set DIRECT IO mode on the loop device. So it can be used to open backing
>  file. The (third)
>  .BR ioctl(2)
>  argument is an unsigned long value. non-zero represents direct IO mode.
> +.TP
> +.BR LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE " (since Linux 4.14)"
> +.\" commit 89e4fdecb51cf5535867026274bc97de9480ade5
> +Set the block size of the loop device. The (third)
> +.BR ioctl(2)
> +argument is an unsigned long value. This value must be 2 to the power of N
> +and in range [512,pagesize]. Otherwise, it will get EINVAL error.
>  .PP
>  Since Linux 2.6, there are two new
>  .BR ioctl (2)
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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