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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_find_next_zero_bit needs an aligned address on some arch
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:49:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BC3E14.4050708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203518487-7214-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> ext4_find_next_zero_bit and ext4_find_next_bit needs a long aligned
> address on x8_64. Add mb_find_next_zero_bit and mb_find_next_bit
> and use them in the mballoc.
> 
> Fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433286
> 
> Eric Sandeen debugged the problem and suggested the fix.

Also, Ted & Mingming: we probably should get this into 2.6.25; at least
w/ the way the Fedora kernel is configured, ext4 is pretty much DOA w/o
this change.  I'm not sure why it started showing up now, but it is, in
a big way. :)

Thanks,
-Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 14:41 [PATCH] ext4: ext4_find_next_zero_bit needs an aligned address on some arch Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-02-20 14:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-20 14:49 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-02-20 16:25   ` Mingming Cao

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