Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: Use div64_ul() instead of do_div()

From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 16:15:11 EST



> On Feb 29, 2024, at 21:40, Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 20:41, Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 19:45, Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> All of the fixes in this patch seem to be correct, but this doesn't
>>> cover nilfs_resize_fs(), nilfs_max_segment_count(), and
>>> nilfs_sb2_bad_offset(), which also have do_div() that doesn't use the
>>> return value.
>>
>> For nilfs_sb2_bad_offset(), where the dividend is u64 and the divisor is u32, we
>> would need a dedicated function like div64_u32() that doesn't calculate the
>> remainder, which doesn't seem to exist. What do you think?
>
> Never mind, there is div_u64(u64, u32). I'll submit a v2 shortly.

I left nilfs_sb2_bad_offset() unchanged in v2 because div_u64() still calculates
the remainder.

Thorsten