From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757213AbZFJIbz (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:31:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754559AbZFJIbj (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:31:39 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36158 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754397AbZFJIbi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:31:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:31:39 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: LKML , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: next-20090609 hangs in early user mode Message-ID: <20090610083139.GA25538@infradead.org> References: <20090610180058.99bd3dda.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090610180058.99bd3dda.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:00:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > The machines are PowerPC64 (so big endian). It looks to me like we use > bitops on i_state - don't our bitops only apply to unsigned longs? Yes, bitops need unsigned long. And on most plaforms should give you warnings when using them on the wrong type.