[PATCH 1/7] block: add queue_logical_block_mask() and bdev_logical_block_mask()

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:44:35AM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote:
> On 2023/6/29 0:46, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 05:34:54PM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote:
> > > Introduce queue_logical_block_mask() and bdev_logical_block_mask()
> > > to simplify code, which replace (queue_logical_block_size(q) - 1)
> > > and (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1).
> > The thing is that I know what queue_logical_block_size - 1 does.
> > That's the low bits.  _Which_ bits are queue_logical_block_mask?
> > The high bits or the low bits?  And before you say "It's obviously",
> > we have both ways round in the kernel today.
> 
> 
> I guess for this you mentioned, can we name it bdev_logical_block_lmask and
> queue_logical_block_lmask?

{bdev,queue}_offset_in_lba() ?

--D

> 
> Thx,
> 
> > 
> > I am not in favour of this change.  I might be in favour of bool
> > queue_logical_block_aligned(q, x), but even then it doesn't seem worth
> > the bits.