On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
Change the page member of the scatterlist structure to be an unsigned
long, and encode more stuff in the lower bits:
- Bits 0 and 1 zero: this is a normal sg entry. Next sg entry is located
at sg + 1.
- Bit 0 set: this is a chain entry, the next real entry is at ->page_link
with the two low bits masked off.
- Bit 1 set: this is the final entry in the sg entry. sg_next() will return
NULL when passed such an entry.
Better safe than sorry...
Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures
(e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes,
not 4?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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