linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_find_next_zero_bit needs an aligned address on some arch

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:25:19 -0800
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_find_next_zero_bit needs an aligned address
	on some arch

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 08:49 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > ext4_find_next_zero_bit and ext4_find_next_bit needs a long aligned
> > address on x8_64. Add mb_find_next_zero_bit and mb_find_next_bit
> > and use them in the mballoc.
> > 
> > Fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433286
> > 
> > Eric Sandeen debugged the problem and suggested the fix.
> 
> Also, Ted & Mingming: we probably should get this into 2.6.25; at least
> w/ the way the Fedora kernel is configured, ext4 is pretty much DOA w/o
> this change.  I'm not sure why it started showing up now, but it is, in
> a big way. :)
> 

Acked, and added to ext4 patch queue. 

Thanks,
Mingming

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