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We do a lot of calculations where we divide or multiply by sectorsize. We also know and make sure that sectorsize is a power of two, so this means all divisions can be turned to shifts and avoid eg. expensive u64/u32 divisions. The type is u32 as it's more register friendly on x86_64 compared to u8 and the resulting assembly is smaller (movzbl vs movl). There's also superblock s_blocksize_bits but it's usually one more pointer dereference farther than fs_info. Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.