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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] fs/dcache: Report negative dentry number in dentry-state
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On 07/17/2017 10:09 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:39:31AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ struct qstr {
>> struct dentry_stat_t {
>> long nr_dentry;
>> long nr_unused;
>> - long age_limit; /* age in seconds */
>> - long want_pages; /* pages requested by system */
>> - long dummy[2];
>> + long nr_negative; /* # of negative dentries */
>> + long age_limit; /* age in seconds */
>> + long want_pages; /* pages requested by system */
>> + long dummy;
>> };
>> extern struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat;
> You can't just insert a field in the middle like that. It'll break any code
> parsing /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state. You have to put it at the end:
>
> long age_limit; /* age in seconds */
> long want_pages; /* pages requested by system */
> - long dummy[2];
> + long nr_negative; /* # of negative dentries */
> + long dummy;
> };

My mistake. I will send out an updated patches later on after collecting
more feedback to make the new field go to the end.

Cheers,
Longman

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