[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH] dm: Check for device sector overflow if CONFIG_LBDAF is not set

Milan Broz gmazyland at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 18:59:25 UTC 2018


On 05/11/2018 19:35, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> But the condition "sizeof(cc->start) < sizeof(tmpll)" could be dropped, 
> the compiler will optimize out "cc->start != tmpll" if the types have the 
> same width.

Yes, the intention here is that in 64bit env. the whole if condition
is not compiled in. If it happens without "sizeof(cc->start) < sizeof(tmpll)",
then we can drop it.

So, does it make sense to add this to all dm targets? Or any better idea?

Milan




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