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

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Jun 28 2023 - 12:48:01 EST


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 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.