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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary_mask
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
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From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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On 12/8/21 2:38 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Sure, I meant for it to be talking about the memory addresses.  How about this:
> 
> 		[RO] This file shows the I/O segment memory alignment mask for
> 		the block device.  I/O requests to this device will be split
> 		between segments wherever either the memory address of the end
> 		of the previous segment or the memory address of the beginning
> 		of the current segment is not aligned to virt_boundary_mask + 1
> 		bytes.

That also sounds good to me.

Thanks,

Bart.