Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>On some larger ppc64 configurations /proc/device-tree is exhausting 
>> procfs' dynamic (non-pid) inode range (16K).  This patch makes the 
>> dynamic inode range 0xf0000000-0xffffffff
>>and changes the inode number 
>> allocator to use a growable linked list of bitmaps.
> 
> This open-codes a simple version of lib/idr.c.  Please use lib/idr.c
> instead.  There's an example in fs/super.c

Ok, thanks for the tip.  Is this better?

Nathan