On 07/17/2017 10:09 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 09:39:31AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ struct qstr {
>>  struct dentry_stat_t {
>>      long nr_dentry;
>>      long nr_unused;
>> -    long age_limit;          /* age in seconds */
>> -    long want_pages;         /* pages requested by system */
>> -    long dummy[2];
>> +    long nr_negative;       /* # of negative dentries */
>> +    long age_limit;         /* age in seconds */
>> +    long want_pages;        /* pages requested by system */
>> +    long dummy;
>>  };
>>  extern struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat;
> You can't just insert a field in the middle like that.  It'll break any code
> parsing /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.  You have to put it at the end:
>
>       long age_limit;          /* age in seconds */
>       long want_pages;         /* pages requested by system */
> -     long dummy[2];
> +     long nr_negative;       /* # of negative dentries */
> +     long dummy;
>  };

My mistake. I will send out an updated patches later on after collecting
more feedback to make the new field go to the end.

Cheers,
Longman

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