On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:32:17 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at get_swap_bio() in mm/page_io.c and wonder why the result of
> map_swap_page() in there is multiplied by (PAGE_SIZE >> 9). Is it the block
> size of 512 B hardcoded? And if so, is that actually right (I mean, aren't there
> any block devices with different block sizes)?
>
Yep, the Linux block layer is based on a 512-bytes sector all over the
place. Everywhere you see a sector_t, that's in units of 512-byte-sectors.
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