Re: [PATCH] change b_size to size_t

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:32 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:28:12AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > Here is the updated version of the patch, which changes
> > buffer_head.b_size to size_t to support mapping large
> > amount of disk blocks (for large IOs).
> 
> Your patch doesn't seem to be inline, so I can't quote it.  Several 
> problems: on 64 bit platforms you introduced 4 bytes of padding into 
> buffer_head.  atomic_t only takes up 4 byte, while size_t is 8 byte 
> aligned. 


Ignore my previous mail.

How about doing this ? Change b_state to u32 and change b_size
to "size_t". This way, we don't increase the overall size of
the structure on 64-bit machines. Isn't it ?

Thanks,
Badari


struct buffer_head {
        u32 b_state;                    /* buffer state bitmap (see
above) */
        atomic_t b_count;               /* users using this buffer_head
*/
        struct buffer_head *b_this_page;/* circular list of page's
buffers */
        struct page *b_page;            /* the page this bh is mapped to
*/
        size_t b_size;                  /* size of mapping */

        sector_t b_blocknr;             /* start block number */
        char *b_data;                   /* pointer to data within the
page */

        struct block_device *b_bdev;
        bh_end_io_t *b_end_io;          /* I/O completion */
        void *b_private;                /* reserved for b_end_io */
        struct list_head b_assoc_buffers; /* associated with another
mapping */
};


Thanks,
Badari