[PATCH 1/4] xfs: fix use of agi_newino in finobt lookup
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Fri Sep 26 04:47:48 CDT 2014
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:37:40AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Sparse warns that we are passing the big-endian valueo f agi_newino
> to the initial btree lookup function when trying to find a new
> inode. This is wrong - we need to pass the host order value, not the
> disk order value. This will adversely affect the next inode
> allocated, but given that the free inode btree is usually much
> smaller than the allocated inode btree it is much less likely to be
> a performance issue if we start the search in the wrong place.
Looks good. I'm rather surprised this wasn't noticed earlier.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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