diff --git a/man4/loop.4 b/man4/loop.4
index f4cf48043..86a7fa041 100644
--- a/man4/loop.4
+++ b/man4/loop.4
@@ -178,6 +178,49 @@ This value must be a power of two in the range
 otherwise, an
 .B EINVAL
 error results.
+.TP
+.BR LOOP_CONFIGURE " (since Linux 5.8)"
+.\" commit 3448914e8cc550ba792d4ccc74471d1ca4293aae
+Setup and configure all loop device parameters in a single step using
+the (third)
+.BR ioctl (2)
+argument.
+This argument is a pointer to a
+.I loop_config
+structure, defined in
+.I <linux/loop.h>
+as:
+.IP
+.in +4n
+.EX
+struct loop_config {
+    __u32               fd;
+    __u32               block_size;
+    struct loop_info64  info;
+    __u64               __reserved[8];
+};
+.EE
+.in
+.IP
+In addition to doing what
+.BR LOOP_SET_STATUS
+can do,
+.BR LOOP_CONFIGURE
+can also be used to the following:
+.RS
+.IP * 2
+Set the correct block size immediately by setting
+.IR loop_config.block_size.
+.IP *
+Explicitly request direct I/O mode by setting
+.BR LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO
+in loop_config.info.lo_flags.
+.IP *
+Explicitly request read-only mode by setting
+.BR LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY
+in
+.IR loop_config.info.lo_flags.
+.RE
 .PP
 Since Linux 2.6, there are two new
 .BR ioctl (2)