linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

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Message-ID: <20131103195452.GL13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 3 Nov 2013 19:54:52 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:25:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ugh.
> 
> This is too late since I want to do 3.12 today, and it seems to not be
> a regression - from what I can tell, the problem has always existed,
> no?
> 
> So I'll consider this post-3.12. However, it also strikes me that we
> should just clean things up, and make "i_ino" be an u64, and be able
> to do this without the vfs_getattr_nosec() games.

IIRC, at some point such an attempt has seriously hurt iget() on 32bit
boxen, so we ended up deciding not to go there.  Had been years ago,
though...
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