Re: device-mapper: fix TB stripe data corruption

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Jan 21 2005 - 16:25:50 EST


Kevin> We have to take a mod of the chunk value and the number of
Kevin> stripes (which can be a non-power-of-2, so a shift won't
Kevin> work). It's been my understanding that you couldn't mod a
Kevin> 64-bit value with a 32-bit value in the kernel.

If I understand you correctly, do_div() (defined in <asm/div64.h>)
does what you need. Look at asm-generic/div64.h for a good
description of the precise semantics of do_div().

- Roland
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