Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] add crc64 calculation as kernel library

From: Coly Li
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 22:46:13 EST


On 2018/7/17 10:55 PM, Coly Li wrote:
> This patch set adds basic implementation of crc64 calculation as Linux
> kernel library. Since bcache already does crc64 by itself, this patch
> set also modifies bcache code to use the new crc64 library routine.
>
> bcache uses crc64 as storage checksum, if a change of crc lib routines
> results an inconsistent result, the unmatched checksum may make bcache
> 'think' the on-disk is corrupted, such change should be avoided or
> detected as early as possible. Therefore the last patch in this series
> adds a crc test framework, to check consistency of different calculations.
>
> Changelog:
> v3: Remove little endian restriction and remove 'le' from function names.
> Fixes all review comments of v2
> v2: Combine first two patches into one
> Fixes all review comments of v1
> v1: Initial version.
>
> Coly Li


Hi folks,

Many thanks for your review and comments, I do appreciate for your help.
Also thank Andrew to pick up the patches.

Coly Li