From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:31:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162837874.12129.1.camel@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061106182222.GO27140@parisc-linux.org>
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:22 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:12:05PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > The attached patch remedies this by making the last_inode counter be an
> > unsigned int on kernels that have ia32 compatability mode enabled.
>
> ... and this only happens on ia64/x86_64 kernels, not sparc64, ppc64,
> s390x, parisc64 or mips64?
>
Yeah, that was my big question. I'd only seen this on ia32 compatability
modes, but clearly its a problem where unsigned long is a different size
between a 64-bit kernel and its 32-bit compatability mode.
I'll have a look at CONFIG_COMPAT and likely respin.
Thanks,
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-06 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 18:12 [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 18:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-06 18:31 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2006-11-06 18:47 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 20:23 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-06 20:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-06 20:56 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-06 20:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-06 21:11 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-06 21:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-06 22:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-07 15:56 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 16:07 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 16:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-07 17:04 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:28 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:42 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:53 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-11-07 18:07 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 17:56 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:01 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-07 19:41 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 20:41 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 21:13 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 21:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-07 22:09 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 18:01 ` Jeff Layton
2006-11-07 18:14 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-07 18:23 ` Jeff Layton
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