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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:53:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109782387.9667.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503021233.57341.bernd-schubert@web.de>

on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 12:33 (+0100) skreiv Bernd Schubert:

> > I can see no good reason for truncating inode number values on platforms
> > that actually do support 64-bit inode numbers, but I can see several
> 
> Well, at least we would have a reason ;)

A 32-bit emulation mode is clearly a "platform" which does NOT support
64-bit inode numbers, however there is (currently) no way for the kernel
to detect that you are running that. Any extra truncation should
therefore ideally be done by the emulation layer rather than the kernel
itself.

Cheers,
  Trond
-- 
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-02 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-28 20:54 Bernd Schubert
2005-02-28 21:00 ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 21:07   ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 21:48     ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 22:30       ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 23:07         ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 22:10     ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 22:19       ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 23:22         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 23:19       ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-01 23:39         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 23:46         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-02  8:18           ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-02  9:13             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-02 11:33               ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-02 16:53                 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2005-03-02 18:14                   ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-03  9:19                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 21:16                     ` Bernd Schubert
2005-03-03 21:32                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 21:37                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-03 21:46                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-03 22:21                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-03  9:12               ` Andi Kleen

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