Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] locks: scalability improvements for file locking

2013-06-04 Thread Jim Rees
Jeff Layton wrote: > Might be nice to look at some profiles to confirm all of that. I'd also > be curious how much variation there was in the results above, as they're > pretty close. > The above is just a random representative sample. The results are pretty close when running thi

Re: [PATCH v8 01/16] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

2012-10-30 Thread Jim Rees
Sasha Levin wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Just some nitpicks. > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:45:57PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> +/* Use hash_32 when possible to allow for fast 32bit hashing in 64bit kernels. */ >> +#define hash_min(val, b

Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

2012-10-26 Thread Jim Rees
Theodore Ts'o wrote: The problem is this code isn't done yet, and journal_checksum is really not ready for prime time. When it is ready, my plan is to wire it up so it is enabled by default; at the moment, it was intended for developer experimentation only. As I said, it's my fault for n

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Rees
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Your way does not function as originally desired. * base10len(i) no longer expands to a compile-time constant * you will definitely have a variable base10len_vals in your objects, so you waste a read operation whenever it is used. No, I meant my original w

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Rees
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: [] > Pure K&R: We can (and should) make it "const" too. No "const" in K&R either. But I think we can assume the kernel will be compiled with something a bit more advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Rees
Jan Engelhardt wrote: >A pure K&R-C version would use a string: >#define base10len(i) "\0x1\0x3\0x5\0x8\0x0A\0x0D\0x0F\0x11\0x14"[sizeof(i)] >(if I converted them properly into hexadecimal) The syntax is \x01\x03\x05... K&R doesn't have the \x escape, only \0 (octal). -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-09-14 Thread Jim Rees
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 08:19 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2012-08-21 23:29, J. Bruce Fields wrote: [...] > >+/* > >+ * length of the decimal representation of an unsigned integer. Just an > >+ * approximation, but it's right for types of size 1 to

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-08-21 Thread Jim Rees
Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 05:22:27PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > From: "J. Bruce Fields" > > I've seen a couple examples recently where we've gotten this wrong. > Maybe something like this

Re: [PATCH] strings: helper for maximum decimal encoding of an unsigned integer

2012-08-21 Thread Jim Rees
J. Bruce Fields wrote: From: "J. Bruce Fields" I've seen a couple examples recently where we've gotten this wrong. Maybe something like this would help? Is there some better way? (Approximation due to Jim Rees). Please add Suggested-by: Jim Rees . I'm

Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Rees
Sasha Levin wrote: > Learning from what happened in this specific case, there are actually 2 issues here: > > - Array size was constant and too small, which is solved by the patch above. > - We were blindly trying to sprintf() into that array, this issue may pop back up if someone de

Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Rees
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote: > You could use something like: > > char tbuf[sizeof (unsigned long) * 24 / 10 + 1 + 2]; /* + 2 for final "\n\0" */ > > since there are roughly 10 bits for every 3 decim

Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

2012-07-18 Thread Jim Rees
J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:01:26AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > The buffer size in read_flush() is too small for the longest possible values > for it. This can lead to a kernel stack corruption: Thanks! > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache