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

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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:16:55 -0500
From:	Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final

(Argh, sorry, with the right stable address cc'd this time I hope.)

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 03:10:04PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, not taking ->i_lock there definitely looks like a good thing.  As for
> 64bit ->i_ino itself...  Looks like the main problem is the shitload of
> printks - the actual uses of ->i_ino are fine, but these suckers create
> a lot of noise.  So for now I'm going with Bruce's variant; 64bit i_ino
> doesn't look too bad (even on i386, actually), but it'll have to wait
> until 3.14.  Too noisy and late in this cycle...

I believe we also want that in stable?

950ee9566a5b6cc45d15f5fe044bab4f1e8b62cb "exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd
handling of 64-bit inode numbers"

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