linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] jbd: change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct journal_head from type unsigned to tid

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:31:15 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd: change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct
 journal_head from type unsigned to tid_t

On Mon 25-07-11 21:02:25, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> The patch is against 3.0
> 
> In the definition of struct journal_head, the comment for
> the field "unsigned b_cow_tid" says the field tracks the
> last transaction id in which this buffer has been cowed.
> 
> In the header part of file journal-head.h, it defines
>    typedef unsigned int  tid_t;
> We should use type tid_t to define transaction id fields.
> 
> Change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct journal_head from
> type unsigned to tid_t.
  Hmm, I didn't notice Ted merged this from ext4cow patch series. Looking
at struct journal_head, I'm thinking we might split jbd and jbd2 version of
this structure. jbd one could be 16 bytes shorter. Anyway, I've merged your
patch. Thanks.

								Honza
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/journal-head.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/journal-head.h b/include/linux/journal-head.h
> index 44e95d0..423cb6d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/journal-head.h
> +++ b/include/linux/journal-head.h
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct journal_head {
>  	 * has been cowed
>  	 * [jbd_lock_bh_state()]
>  	 */
> -	unsigned b_cow_tid;
> +	tid_t b_cow_tid;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Copy of the buffer data frozen for writing to the log.
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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