From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HPPA64: Cannot write to ext4 filesystems with files > 28672 byte
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:02:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2644534.tZXB7rEiue@eto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP92018283116845C259EC9F97530@phx.gbl>
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Am Sonntag 04 März 2012, 17:14:14 schrieb John David Anglin:
> On 27-Feb-12, at 9:55 AM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > Recent kernels (>3.x) fail when writing to ext4 filesystems with the
> > message "file too large". The critical size is 28672 byte (7*2^12).
> > This
> > has been traced down to ext4_max_size() by Tobias Ulmer, which looks
> > like
>
> > this:
> Fixed in GCC source trees (> 4.4). Problem was incorrect shift caused
> by truncation to int.
>
> The following instruction was incorrect:
>
> 50: d7 9f 12 1d depdi,z,* -1,sar,3,ret0
>
> The length operand was incorrectly calculated.
As I said ;)
Linux pioneer 3.2.9 #1 SMP Mon Mar 5 13:17:55 CET 2012 parisc64 PA8800 (Mako)
9000/785/C8000 GNU/Linux
And I can now properly use the ext4 filesystems again, yay!
Thanks, excellent work!
Eike
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2012-02-27 14:55 HPPA64: Cannot write to ext4 filesystems with files > 28672 byte Rolf Eike Beer
2012-03-04 22:14 ` John David Anglin
2012-03-05 19:02 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
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