Darrick J. Wong
b3e60f8483
The generic exchange-range alignment checks use (fast) bitmasking operations to perform block alignment checks on the exchange parameters. Unfortunately, bitmasks require that the alignment size be a power of two. This isn't true for realtime devices with a non-power-of-two extent size, so we have to copy-pasta the generic checks using long division for this to work properly. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.