From: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:11:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DBE741.2080801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155257941.4505.32.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com>
Mingming Cao wrote:
> When we cleanup ext3 code to fix some "int" type block numbers to
> "unsigned long" type to able to truely support 2^32 bit ext3 (otherwise
> ext3 is limited to 2^31 blocks (8TB)), we had to go through a lot of
> printk to modify the format string from %d to %lu. It's a pain.
<OT>
FWIW, ext3 still isn't 32-bit clean, in my testing. The types are ok but the
code overflows them with arithmetic in some places. Look for patches from me
soon ;-)
</OT>
-eric
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From: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:11:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DBE741.2080801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155257941.4505.32.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com>
Mingming Cao wrote:
> When we cleanup ext3 code to fix some "int" type block numbers to
> "unsigned long" type to able to truely support 2^32 bit ext3 (otherwise
> ext3 is limited to 2^31 blocks (8TB)), we had to go through a lot of
> printk to modify the format string from %d to %lu. It's a pain.
<OT>
FWIW, ext3 still isn't 32-bit clean, in my testing. The types are ok but the
code overflows them with arithmetic in some places. Look for patches from me
soon ;-)
</OT>
-eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-11 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 1:20 [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 11:05 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:30 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:30 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:08 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:27 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:27 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:52 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:04 ` [Ext2-devel] " Eric Sandeen
2006-08-10 14:19 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:35 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:41 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:24 ` John Stoffel
2006-08-10 16:43 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 16:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 17:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 17:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 15:31 ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-08-10 16:37 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:37 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 21:59 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 19:17 ` Joel Becker
2006-08-10 19:17 ` Joel Becker
2006-08-10 19:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 19:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 20:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 20:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-10 20:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 5:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 5:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-11 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-11 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 14:48 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 14:48 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 0:59 ` Mingming Cao
2006-08-11 2:11 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-08-11 2:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-11 22:06 ` Mingming Cao
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