[PATCH 1/3] quota: Add a new quotactl command Q_XGETQSTATV
Jan Kara
jack at suse.cz
Wed Aug 14 04:31:10 CDT 2013
On Tue 13-08-13 17:39:04, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 23:22 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Neither me nor linux-fsdevel has been CCed on this change. Please do that
>
> Jan,
>
> All the CC in the email you got were from my original email. I did CC
> you and linux-fsdevel when I sent this patchset a week ago
> (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-08/msg00171.html).
>
> I am confused on what happened and how you didn't get the original
> email. Just now I checked linux-fsdevel archive. I do not see it there
> either. Bizarre. (May be something wrong in the way I used
> git-send-email)
>
> Sorry.
No problem.
> > next time. Now looking into the patch in xfs mailing list archive I have
> > one comment: You declare:
> > struct fs_quota_statv {
> > __s8 qs_version; /* version for future changes */
> > __u8 qs_pad1; /* pad for 16bit alignment */
> > __u16 qs_flags; /* FS_QUOTA_.* flags */
> > __u32 qs_incoredqs; /* number of dquots incore */
> > struct fs_qfilestatv qs_uquota; /* user quota information */
> > struct fs_qfilestatv qs_gquota; /* group quota information */
> > struct fs_qfilestatv qs_pquota; /* project quota information */
> > __s32 qs_btimelimit; /* limit for blks timer */
> > __s32 qs_itimelimit; /* limit for inodes timer */
> > __s32 qs_rtbtimelimit;/* limit for rt blks timer */
> > __u16 qs_bwarnlimit; /* limit for num warnings */
> > __u16 qs_iwarnlimit; /* limit for num warnings */
> > __u64 qs_pad2[8]; /* for future proofing */
> > };
> >
> > Now do you really need qs_pad2 field? Since the structure is properly
> > versioned now, even its size can vary between versions, cannot it?
>
> Yes, it can.
>
> I added the pad based on Dave Chinner's suggestion:
OK, makes sense. So I'm ok with the patch. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Honza
>
> ----------
> > > Dave:
> > > > > future enhancements, maybe we should add 64 bytes of empty
> > > > > space at the end of the structure....
> > > > Chandra:
> > > > Since this version is fully backward compatible, I didn't think a
> > > > future pad was needed. Do you want me to add ?
> > > Dave:
> > > We only really need to change the structure version when we change
> > > input parameters, the size or the shape of the structure being
> > > passed in from userspace. If we add padding now, then we can expand
> > > output of the call without needing to bump the version of the
> > > structure. Old code simply won't know (or care) about the new output
> > > in the region of the structure it considers empty padding....
> > Chandra:
> > Ok. I will all 64 bytes of additional padding at the end.
> > Otherwise the patch looks fine.
> >
> ----------
>
> His argument convinced me to add the padding. What do you think ?
>
>
> > Honza
> >
>
>
--
Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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