Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: assume 64-bit lba numbers

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 14:08:25 EST


On 04/19/2017 12:04 PM, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> On 04/19/2017 07:39 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The driver uses both u64 and sector_t to refer to offsets, and assigns between the
>> two. This causes one harmless warning when sector_t is 32-bit:
>>
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-rb.c: In function 'pblk_rb_write_entry_gc':
>> include/linux/lightnvm.h:215:20: error: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Werror=overflow]
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-rb.c:324:22: note: in expansion of macro 'ADDR_EMPTY'
>>
>> As the driver is already doing this inconsistently, changing the type
>> won't make it worse and is an easy way to avoid the warning.
>>
>> Fixes: a4bd217b4326 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
>> index c82120ce3be5..11ed7d83f572 100644
>> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
>> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
>> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct pblk_w_ctx {
>> struct bio_list bios; /* Original bios - used for completion
>> * in REQ_FUA, REQ_FLUSH case
>> */
>> - sector_t lba; /* Logic addr. associated with entry */
>> + u64 lba; /* Logic addr. associated with entry */
>> struct ppa_addr ppa; /* Physic addr. associated with entry */
>> int flags; /* Write context flags */
>> };
>>
>
> Thanks Arnd. Jens, could you pick this up? Thank you

Done, thanks Arnd.

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Jens Axboe