From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758320Ab0AOVZe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:25:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758196Ab0AOVZd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:25:33 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56074 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758106Ab0AOVZd (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:25:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:24:32 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Eric Paris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miltonm@austin.ibm.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jkosina@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] idr: fix idr corruption when id crosses a layer boundary Message-Id: <20100115132432.88037419.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1263590090-24967-1-git-send-email-eparis@redhat.com> References: <1263590090-24967-1-git-send-email-eparis@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:14:50 -0500 Eric Paris wrote: > inotify has for months been been having problems keeping the fsnotify view of > its objects in sync with the idr view of its objects. I discovered this was > only ever the case with the 4096th object created. Neato. Do you think this will help with all the inotify problems people have been having? Do you think this fix should go into 2.6.32.x and earlier? Thanks.