linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife

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Message-ID: <4960769D.2020509@panasas.com>
Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:43:09 +0200
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, avishay@...il.com,
	jeff@...zik.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, osd-dev@...n-osd.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>> In this patch are all the osd infrastructure that will be used later
>>> by the file system.
>>>
>>> Also the declarations of constants, on disk structures, and prototypes.
>>>
>>> And the Kbuild+Kconfig files needed to build the exofs module.
>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> +struct exofs_sb_info {
>>> +	struct osd_dev	*s_dev;			/* returned by get_osd_dev    */
>>> +	uint64_t	s_pid;			/* partition ID of file system*/
>>> +	int		s_timeout;		/* timeout for OSD operations */
>>> +	uint32_t	s_nextid;		/* highest object ID used     */
>>> +	uint32_t	s_numfiles;		/* number of files on fs      */
>>> +	spinlock_t	s_next_gen_lock;	/* spinlock for gen # update  */
>>> +	u32		s_next_generation;	/* next gen # to use          */
>>> +	atomic_t	s_curr_pending;		/* number of pending commands */
>>> +	uint8_t		s_cred[OSD_CAP_LEN];	/* all-powerful credential    */
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * our inode flags
>>> + */
>>> +#ifdef ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED
>> This doesn't exist, and it would be fairly bad to introduce it.  Please
>> kill the ifdefs.
>>
>>> +typedef unsigned exofs_iflags_t;
>>> +#else
>>> +typedef unsigned long exofs_iflags_t;
>>> +#endif
>> Then please kill the typedef altogether and replace it with `unsigned
>> long' everywhere
> 
> Hmmm.. .and at a note somewhere that we assume unsigned long to be atomic...?
> 

I think I'll just use unsigned. It's more then enough I'm not using more then 3
bits for now. Is unsigned workable for all ARCHs?

Thanks
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