Re: [EXT4 set 7][PATCH 1/1]Remove 32000 subdirs limit.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 08:22:42 EST


On 7/13/07, Kalpak Shah <kalpak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX() is buggy: it evaluates its arg twice.

#define EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir) (!is_dx(dir) && (dir)->i_nlink >= EXT4_LINK_MAX)

[snip]

Sorry, I didn't understand what is the problem with this macro?

The expression represented by 'dir' is evaluated twice (think dir++
here). It's safer to make it a static inline function.

Pekka
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