linux-kernel - Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:35:46 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
CC:	wk <handygewinnspiel@....de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, rjw@...k.pl,
	HWerner4@....de, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	mchehab@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] compiling on 2.6.28 broken?

Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 22:19 +0100, wk wrote:
...
>> I cannot fully understand what strace -v outputs (see attachment), but 
>> what i see is that 'find' stops after finding a file with d_off = 4294967295
>> 4294967295  =  0xFFFFFFFF, adding any number greater that zero will be 
>> greater that 32bits, so this could be the reason for the message "value 
>> too large".
>>
>>
>>
>> I also noticed that i cannot access these files through samba if i boot 
>> from 2.6.28 - really strange.
>> If i reboot older kernels these are visible in samba again and fully 
>> accessible.
>>
>> Attached the log from stracing the command which was ivoked by the 
>> Makefile from v4l-dvb.
>> I guess this is all i could contribute to that problem. Thats stuff for 
>> xfs filesystem experts now..
> 
> Seems suspect indeed.  Could you please attach the strace for the run
> that works on the older kernel?

Chris got my attention on this one; you probably want this fix from hch:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2009-01/msg00158.html

-Eric
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