On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 08:31 -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> Recent data integrity field enhancements allow 48-bit reference tags.
> Introduce a helper macro since this will be a repeated operation.
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> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
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> @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@
> } \
> )
>
> +/**
> + * lower_48_bits - return bits 0-47 of a number
> + * @n: the number we're accessing
> + */
> +#define lower_48_bits(n) ((u64)((n) & 0xffffffffffffull))
why not make this a static inline function?
And visually, it's difficult to quickly count a repeated character to 12.
Perhaps:
static inline u64 lower_48_bits(u64 val)
{
return val & GENMASK_ULL(47, 0);
}
