The patch titled
make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits comments
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits-comments.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits.patch
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Subject: make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits comments
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
mention that it's only the case for 32bit, non-LFS stat.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/inode.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/inode.c~make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits-comments fs/inode.c
--- a/fs/inode.c~make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits-comments
+++ a/fs/inode.c
@@ -535,7 +535,11 @@ repeat:
*/
struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
{
- /* 32 bits for compatability mode stat calls */
+ /*
+ * On a 32bit, non LFS stat() call, glibc will generate an EOVERFLOW
+ * error if st_ino won't fit in target struct field. Use 32bit counter
+ * here to attempt to avoid that.
+ */
static unsigned int last_ino;
struct inode * inode;
@@ -695,7 +699,11 @@ static unsigned long hash(struct super_b
*/
ino_t iunique(struct super_block *sb, ino_t max_reserved)
{
- /* 32 bits for compatability mode stat calls */
+ /*
+ * On a 32bit, non LFS stat() call, glibc will generate an EOVERFLOW
+ * error if st_ino won't fit in target struct field. Use 32bit counter
+ * here to attempt to avoid that.
+ */
static unsigned int counter;
struct inode *inode;
struct hlist_head *head;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are
nfs-suppress-warnings-about-nfs4err_old_stateid-in-nfs4_handle_exception.patch
make-iunique-use-a-do-while-loop-rather-than-its-obscure-goto-loop.patch
make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits.patch
make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits-comments.patch
change-libfs-sb-creation-routines-to-avoid-collisions-with-their-root-inodes.patch
rpc-add-wrapper-for-svc_reserve-to-account-for-checksum.patch
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