linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: next-20090609 hangs in early user mode

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:00:54 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: next-20090609 hangs in early user mode

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:00:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87 is first bad commit
> commit d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Date:   Thu May 21 16:00:59 2009 -0400
> 
>     fs: i_flags and i_state in struct inode only need to be unsigned short
>     
>     Currently i_flags and i_state do not need to be an unsigned int and an
>     unsigned long, respectively.  (We currently use 9 i_flags bits, and 8
>     i_state bits.)  Changing them to be an unsigned short saves 4 bytes
>     per inode on an x86 platform, and 8 bytes on an x86_64 platform.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
>     Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

*gyah*

Yes, it's obviously bogus.  Dropped from the tree; I don't think it's
really salvagable - even merging into one unsigned long will not be
enough, since we will end up with different locking for different bits.
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