Re: [PATCH v2] block: Check partition alignment on zoned block devices

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> On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jens,
> 
> On 12/1/16 12:03, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Martin, Shaun and myself agreed on the restriction. All ZBC/ZAC disks on
>>> the market today match these so there are no problems. And it is
>>> unlikely that we will ever see weirdly sized SMR drives (customers
>>> generally do not want that).
>> 
>> I'm fine with that, my only concern is that part_zone_aligned() assumes
>> this, and it's a bit fragile. If we remove the power-of-2 restriction.
>> Not sure what the best way to fix it is. Ideally it'd have a
>> WARN_ON_ONCE() and a fallback to a modulo calculation instead of the
>> AND.
> 
> I can have a crack at it. Should I resubmit a new version ?

That'd be great, thanks. 


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