Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability | From | Jeff Layton <> | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:31:14 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:22 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:12:05PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > The attached patch remedies this by making the last_inode counter be an > > unsigned int on kernels that have ia32 compatability mode enabled. > > ... and this only happens on ia64/x86_64 kernels, not sparc64, ppc64, > s390x, parisc64 or mips64? >
Yeah, that was my big question. I'd only seen this on ia32 compatability modes, but clearly its a problem where unsigned long is a different size between a 64-bit kernel and its 32-bit compatability mode.
I'll have a look at CONFIG_COMPAT and likely respin.
Thanks, Jeff
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