On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:17:20 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > +lib-make-percpu_counter_add-take-s64.patch
>
> lib-make-percpu_counter_add-take-s64.patch looks sensible, but it doesn't
> actually work on 32-bit architectures: several users of percpu_counter_add
> are passing -unsignedlong as the amount, which is not promoted to s64 in
> the desired way, so "df" on extN filesystems is showing silly numbers.
>
> The hack below (say long instead of s64 or s32) may be good as hotfix for
> 2.6.23-rc2-mm1, but is probably the worst of solutions. Perhaps take-s64
> should be reverted, perhaps there should be a percpu_counter_sub and the
> filesystems use that instead of saying -unsignedlong, perhaps they should
> use a cast or a long or an s64. I don't know, but here's this for now...
Thanks. I think I'll quietly tip the whole patch series overboard and
shoot for a quick rc2-mm2 rather than trying to patch it up in-situ.
I haven't had a chance to review it all in recent months. Vague first
impressions are that it all goes a bit rampant and changes more than it
needs to, but I'll take a closer look at that if Peter can provide us with
the next version (please).
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