linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: change compr

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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:48:53 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Daeho Jeong <daeho43@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <kernel-team@...roid.com>
CC:     Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: change compr_blocks of superblock info
 to 64bit

On 2020/8/31 10:09, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>
> 
> Current compr_blocks of superblock info is not 64bit value. We are
> accumulating each i_compr_blocks count of inodes to this value and
> those are 64bit values. So, need to change this to 64bit value.

It's not a big deal, as f2fs use 32bits to index block device's address space,
so there is at most 1 << 32 blocks in f2fs, we can not save more blocks than
the number...

If it overflows 32bits variable's space, it must be a bug.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,