[PATCHv3 03/10] asm-generic: introduce be48 unaligned accessors

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Fri Feb 25 09:59:03 PST 2022


On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 09:53:11AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-02-25 at 17:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 08:31:37AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > The NVMe protocol extended the data integrity fields with unaligned
> > > 48-bit reference tags. Provide some helper accessors in
> > > preparation for these.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
> > > Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
> > 
> > Looks good,
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Perhaps for completeness this should also add the le48 variants
> like the 24 bit accessors above this.

I don't know of a user for le48 at this time, and kernel API's without
users often get culled. If you think it's useful, though, I can
certainly include it.



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