[PATCH 1/4] xfs: make i_flags and unsigned long
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Tue Oct 18 19:30:47 CDT 2011
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:13:05PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> To be used for bit wakeup i_flags needs to be an unsigned long or we'll
> run into trouble on big endian systems. Beause of the 1-byte i_update
> field right after it this actually causes a fairly large size increase
> on it's own (4 or 7 bytes), but that increase will be more than offset
> by the next two patches.
You could always make the i_update_core boolean a flag bit, and that
growth will also go away. Regardless:
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
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Dave Chinner
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