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Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures [message #14142 is a reply to message #7646]

Fri, 15 June 2007 10:03

Mikael Pettersson
Messages: 3
Registered: June 2007

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:01:48 +0400, Vasily Tarasov wrote:
> OpenVZ Linux kernel team has discovered the problem
> with 32bit quota tools working on 64bit architectures.
> In 2.6.10 kernel sys32_quotactl() function was replaced by sys_quotactl() with
> the comment "sys_quotactl seems to be 32/64bit clean, enable it for 32bit"
> However this isn't right. Look at if_dqblk structure:

Your patch only converts ia32 on x86-64 or ia64.
What about ppc32-on-ppc64 and sparc32-on-sparc64?
And, I guess, mips32-on-mips64?

> --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-fixed/fs/quota.c.orig 2007-06-14 15:55:26.000000000 +0400
> +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-fixed/fs/quota.c 2007-06-14 19:50:13.000000000 +0400
...
> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> +/*
> + * This code works only for 32 bit quota tools over 64 bit OS (x86_64, ia64)
> + * and is necessary due to alignment problems.
> + */

The #ifdef looks way too arch-specific. And isn't there a shared
compat.c module somewhere that this should go into?

/Mikael

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		[PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Anonymous Coward on Thu, 19 October 2006 12:30
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Alan Cox on Thu, 19 October 2006 13:03
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: rdunlap on Thu, 19 October 2006 15:20
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Christoph Hellwig on Thu, 19 October 2006 17:29
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Anonymous Coward on Fri, 20 October 2006 06:08
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Arnd Bergmann on Sat, 21 October 2006 16:28
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: David Chinner on Mon, 23 October 2006 02:12
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Anonymous Coward on Mon, 23 October 2006 10:50
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Anonymous Coward on Fri, 20 October 2006 05:58
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Anonymous Coward on Fri, 20 October 2006 06:28
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Christoph Hellwig on Fri, 20 October 2006 07:12
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Andi Kleen on Fri, 20 October 2006 12:21
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Vasily Tarasov on Fri, 15 June 2007 10:41
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Vasily Tarasov on Fri, 15 June 2007 11:00
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Arnd Bergmann on Fri, 15 June 2007 10:43
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Vasily Tarasov on Fri, 15 June 2007 14:48
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Arnd Bergmann on Fri, 15 June 2007 15:24
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Vasily Tarasov on Mon, 18 June 2007 07:41
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Mikael Pettersson on Fri, 15 June 2007 10:03
		Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures By: Mikael Pettersson on Fri, 15 June 2007 11:08

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