# \[PATCH 24/29\] block: add a sb\_bdev\_nr\_blocks helper

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2021-10-13 05:44:06 
- List: linux-btrfs
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-btrfs/2021/10/215845
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215820/t.md

```text
Add a helper to return the size of sb->s_bdev in sb->s_blocksize_bits
based unites.  Note that SECTOR_SHIFT has to be open coded due to
include dependency issues for now, but I have a plan to sort that out
eventually.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 include/linux/genhd.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index 082a3e5fd8fa1..6eaef8fa78bcd 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ static inline sector_t get_capacity(struct gendisk *disk)
 	return bdev_nr_sectors(disk->part0);
 }
 
+static inline u64 sb_bdev_nr_blocks(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return bdev_nr_sectors(sb->s_bdev) >>
+		(sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9 /* SECTOR_SHIFT */);
+}
+
 int bdev_disk_changed(struct gendisk *disk, bool invalidate);
 void blk_drop_partitions(struct gendisk *disk);
 
-- 
2.30.2

```
