linux下/proc/partitions中block的size

引自：https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/512945/what-units-are-the-values-in-proc-partitions-and-sys-dev-block-block-size

/proc/partitions shows the size in 1024-byte blocks.

/sys/dev/block/*/*/size shows the size in 512-byte sectors.

Both irrespective of the logical/physical block/sector size of the device.

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For the 1st, you can look in the proc(5) manpage:

/proc/partitions

Contains the major and minor numbers of each partition as well as the number of 1024-byte blocks and the partition name.

For the 2nd, it certainly should be documented somewhere but you can also look directly at the Linux source code in block/partition-generic.c:

ssize_t part_size_show(struct device *dev,
                       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
        struct hd_struct *p = dev_to_part(dev);
        return sprintf(buf, "%llu
",(unsigned long long)part_nr_sects_read(p));
...
static DEVICE_ATTR(size, 0444, part_size_show, NULL);

and how it relates to the code which generates the /proc/partitions info in block/genhd.c:

static int show_partition(struct seq_file *seqf, void *v)
{
        ...
        while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
                seq_printf(seqf, "%4d  %7d %10llu %s
",
                           MAJOR(part_devt(part)), MINOR(part_devt(part)),
                           (unsigned long long)part_nr_sects_read(part) >> 1,
                           disk_name(sgp, part->partno, buf));
        disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
...
static const struct seq_operations partitions_op = {
        ...
        .show   = show_partition

Both are using part_nr_sects_read() which for the case of /proc/partitions is divided by 2 (with >> 1).

part_nr_sects_read() retrieves the nr_sects field of the struct hd_struct, which is always in 512-byte sectors, irrespective of the sector/block size of the device. For instance, you can look at how drivers/block/nbd.c uses the set_capacity() function (which sets the same nr_sects field) with the byte size divided by 512 (with >> 9):

static void nbd_size_update(struct nbd_device *nbd)
{
        ...
        set_capacity(nbd->disk, config->bytesize >> 9);