Andrew Morton pisze:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:42:15 +0200
> Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> bytes_to_blocks is open coded in more than 30 places
>> roundup_to_blocksize is open coded in more than 15 places
>>
>
> It would be nice to document these a bit. Kernel-wide helpers..
ok
>
>> ---
>> include/linux/fs.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
>> index e766be0..1b4e5b6 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
>> @@ -2451,5 +2451,17 @@ int proc_nr_files(struct ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
>>
>> int get_filesystem_list(char * buf);
>>
>> +static inline
>> +unsigned long long roundup_to_blocksize(unsigned long long bytes, struct super_block *sb)
>> +{
>> + return (bytes + sb->s_blocksize - 1) & ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1);
>
> This is ALIGN(bytes, sb->s_blocksize). Dunno if that's any clearer though.
thanks, I didn't know about it
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline
>> +blkcnt_t bytes_to_blocks(unsigned long long bytes, struct super_block *sb)
>> +{
>> + return (bytes + sb->s_blocksize - 1) >> sb->s_blocksize_bits;
>> +}
>
> I wonder whether `unsigned long long' was the best choice of type here.
>
> Probably `bytes' should be loff_t.
loff_t is long long.
So bytes_to_blocks(-6000, sb/*bs=4096, bsb=12*/) would return 4503599627370495
> roundup_to_blocksize() could/should return loff_t too, I think.
And roundup_to_blocksize(-6000, sb/*bs=4096, bsb=12*/) would return -4096
Bit surprising ;)
> roundup_to_blocksize() isn't a terribly good name, IMO. The name
> conveys no sense of what the function returns. It _sounds_ like it
> returns a "block size". But it doesn't - it returns a loff_t.
> round_up_file_offset_to_block_size() is a bit long though :(
I can't find any better name, sorry.
Marcin
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