Re: [PATCH] jbd: change the field "b_cow_tid" of structjournal_head from type unsigned to tid_t

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jul 25 2011 - 11:31:23 EST


On Mon 25-07-11 21:02:25, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> The patch is against 3.0
>
> In the definition of struct journal_head, the comment for
> the field "unsigned b_cow_tid" says the field tracks the
> last transaction id in which this buffer has been cowed.
>
> In the header part of file journal-head.h, it defines
> typedef unsigned int tid_t;
> We should use type tid_t to define transaction id fields.
>
> Change the field "b_cow_tid" of struct journal_head from
> type unsigned to tid_t.
Hmm, I didn't notice Ted merged this from ext4cow patch series. Looking
at struct journal_head, I'm thinking we might split jbd and jbd2 version of
this structure. jbd one could be 16 bytes shorter. Anyway, I've merged your
patch. Thanks.

Honza
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/journal-head.h | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/journal-head.h b/include/linux/journal-head.h
> index 44e95d0..423cb6d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/journal-head.h
> +++ b/include/linux/journal-head.h
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct journal_head {
> * has been cowed
> * [jbd_lock_bh_state()]
> */
> - unsigned b_cow_tid;
> + tid_t b_cow_tid;
>
> /*
> * Copy of the buffer data frozen for writing to the log.
> --
> 1.7.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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