From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: time_after cannot be used alone by NFS code in 32bit architectures Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:18:05 +1000 Message-ID: <17984.30861.472106.751930@notabene.brown> References: <20070426043344.GO10449@sleipnir.redhat.com> <1178106770.5960.28.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1178591824.3918.10.camel@raven.themaw.net> <17984.5736.617053.65429@notabene.brown> <1178627674.25317.2.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: linux-nfs , Ian Kent To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HlPaJ-0005zI-Ug for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 May 2007 06:18:32 -0700 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1HlPaM-00068T-Bw for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 May 2007 06:18:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: message from Trond Myklebust on Tuesday May 8 List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Tuesday May 8, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no wrote: > > We can pretty trivially fix that scenario. See below. > > Trond > > ------------------------------------------ > commit 6d9b786c6c9b5daf8b20927c7495e42e1c7fde6a > Author: Trond Myklebust > Date: Mon May 7 22:41:18 2007 -0400 > > NFS: Fix a jiffie wraparound issue > > dentry verifiers are always set to the parent directory's > cache_change_attribute. There is no reason to be testing for anything other > than equality when we're trying to find out if the dentry has been checked > since the last time the directory was modified. > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Neat-o!! It pays to have someone around who really knows the code well, doesn't it :-) Looks good to me! NeilBrown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs