From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
maneesh@in.ibm.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, oneukum@suse.de, rpurdie@rpsys.net,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] sysfs: fix i_ino handling in sysfs
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:04:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46321F17.2090703@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070427153245.GA10999@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:29:46AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> what about 32-bit stats from 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems? This will make
>> 64-bit inode numbers commonplace in sysfs; will this cause problems? it
>> seems that if they get truncated to 32 bits the possibility of duplicate
>> inode nrs will come back...
>
> Yes, this turned out to be a problem as the ppc people found out :)
>
> Tejun had some follow-on patches fixing this issue up.
Oops, missed that. I'll go looking, thanks.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-09 4:18 [PATCHSET #master] sysfs: make sysfs disconnect immediately on deletion, take 2 Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 05/14] sysfs: consolidate sysfs_dirent creation functions Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 02/14] sysfs: fix error handling in binattr write() Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 04/14] sysfs: flatten cleanup paths in sysfs_add_link() and create_dir() Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 03/14] sysfs: move release_sysfs_dirent() to dir.c Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 01/14] sysfs: fix i_ino handling in sysfs Tejun Heo
2007-04-27 15:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-27 15:32 ` Greg KH
2007-04-27 16:04 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 07/14] sysfs: add sysfs_dirent->s_name Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 11/14] sysfs: implement bin_buffer Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 06/14] sysfs: add sysfs_dirent->s_parent Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 09/14] sysfs: implement kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 08/14] sysfs: make sysfs_dirent->s_element a union Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 10/14] sysfs: reimplement symlink using sysfs_dirent tree Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 14/14] sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner Tejun Heo
2007-04-10 14:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-10 14:30 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-11 4:21 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 4:25 ` [PATCH 14/14 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 13/14] sysfs: kill attribute file orphaning Tejun Heo
2007-04-09 4:18 ` [PATCH 12/14] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 4:15 ` [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 9:00 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-11 9:26 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 9:32 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 10:13 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-11 10:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-12 7:18 ` Greg KH
2007-04-12 7:39 ` Greg KH
2007-04-10 14:44 ` [PATCHSET #master] sysfs: make sysfs disconnect immediately on deletion, take 2 Cornelia Huck
2007-04-11 4:18 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-16 8:22 ` Maneesh Soni
2007-04-17 5:06 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-17 12:42 ` Tejun Heo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-07 8:23 [PATCHSET #master] sysfs: make sysfs disconnect immediately from kobject on deletion Tejun Heo
2007-04-07 8:23 ` [PATCH 01/14] sysfs: fix i_ino handling in sysfs Tejun Heo
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