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From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	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: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:53:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162921983.8123.22.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061107174217.GA29746@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:42 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 November 2006 18:28:35 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, here is a first patch converting some callers that looked
> > obvious.
> 
> Next patch with the not-so-obvious ones.  I believe this patch is
> correct, but someone should double-check it.
> 
> Jfs really surprised me.  It appears as if it just takes the number
> returned from new_inode in some cases - unbelievable.

jfs set it in diInitInode() (pardon the uglyMixedCaps), which is called
in several places under diAlloc().  diAlloc() is called after
new_inode() for most inodes.  The exceptions are for special inodes,
which also initialize i_ino in some manner.

Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-07 17:53 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
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 [this message]
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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