Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2013 19:54:52 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final |
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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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