RE: [PATCH 02/16] f2fs: add on-disk layout

[Chul Lee <chur.lee@samsung.com>]

Dear David Sterba,

David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 08:56:44PM +0900, ????????? wrote:
> > +struct node_footer {
> > +	__le32 nid;		/* node id */
> > +	__le32 ino;		/* inode nunmber */
> > +	__le32 cold:1;		/* cold mark */
> > +	__le32 fsync:1;		/* fsync mark */
> > +	__le32 dentry:1;	/* dentry mark */
> > +	__le32 offset:29;	/* offset in inode's node space */
> 
> A bitfield for a on-disk structure? This will have endianity issues,
> (but I don't know if you intend to support big-endian). It's not enough
> to use cpu_to_le* as in
> 
> fill_node_footer(...) {
> 
> 	rn->footer.offset = cpu_to_le32(ofs);
> 
> }
> 
> because the bitfield inside the structure will be already defined
> reversed. The cpu_to_le macro will only convert value of 'ofs' but will
> place it to different bits than it would on a little-endian arch.
> 
> There are macros to define bitfields in an endian-neutral way (or do it
> by #ifdefs though it also involves duplicating the item names), or you
> can alternatively use two structs fr disk-only and memory-only access,
> the disk one stores __le32 with value combined of all and the in-memory
> gets set up properly and will look like your current version of the
> structure.
> 
> (More about not using bitfields
> http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/bitfields.html)

I appreciate your kind feedback, but we should've avoided using bitfields
for on-disk structure. As you suggested, we'll revise them. The latter
approach would be good.

> 
> 
> david

Chul