linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:22:23 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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?

>  {
> +#if (defined CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION || defined CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT)
> +	static unsigned int last_ino;
> +#else
>  	static unsigned long last_ino;
> +#endif
>  	struct inode * inode;

I suspect what you really want there is CONFIG_COMPAT.
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