From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] jbd: Fail to load a journal if it is too short
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:35:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090721213548.GA6748@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090721091946.06bcdef8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:19:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It's odd that sb->s_first/s_maxlen are 32-bit and
> journal->j_first/j_last are unsigned long.
>
> These things will only ever be 32-bit unless we change the journal
> superblock.
In general, if there is any use of "unsigned long" in fs/ext[34], it's
probably a bug. This is because ulong is 32-bits on x86, and 64-bits
on x86_64, so it just wastes memory space on 64-bit platforms. The
one exception to this is if the field in question is used by the
standard bitops functions, which only functions correctly on "unsigned
long".
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 10:04 [PATCH 0/5] ext3/jbd patches in my patch queue Jan Kara
2009-07-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] jbd: Fail to load a journal if it is too short Jan Kara
2009-07-21 16:19 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-21 16:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-21 21:35 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-07-22 9:52 ` Jan Kara
2009-07-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] ext3: Fix truncation of symlinks after failed write Jan Kara
2009-07-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] jbd: Fix a race between checkpointing code and journal_get_write_access() Jan Kara
2009-07-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] ext3: Get rid of extenddisksize parameter of ext3_get_blocks_handle() Jan Kara
2009-07-21 10:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] jbd: fix race between write_metadata_buffer and get_write_access Jan Kara
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