Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:07:28 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: next-20090609 hangs in early user mode |
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Hi Al,
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:00:54 +0100 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:00:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87 is first bad commit > > commit d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87 > > Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > > Date: Thu May 21 16:00:59 2009 -0400 > > > > fs: i_flags and i_state in struct inode only need to be unsigned short > > > > Currently i_flags and i_state do not need to be an unsigned int and an > > unsigned long, respectively. (We currently use 9 i_flags bits, and 8 > > i_state bits.) Changing them to be an unsigned short saves 4 bytes > > per inode on an x86 platform, and 8 bytes on an x86_64 platform. > > > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> > > Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > > *gyah* > > Yes, it's obviously bogus. Dropped from the tree; I don't think it's > really salvagable - even merging into one unsigned long will not be > enough, since we will end up with different locking for different bits.
OK, thanks.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |