Re: [PATCH-possible bugfix] xfs: ensure extents are read as be64

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 01:03:30 EST


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:58 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:28:51PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > The debug code reads the extents in cpu-order rather than BE. Make the
> > debug code match.
>
> xfs_validate_extents() is reading in-core extents which have already
> been byte-swapped when they were read into memory.
>
> FWIW, when changing anything to do with endian conversion, please
> ensure you run:
>
> $ make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
>
> over the change. This change would introduce errors because:
>
> typedef struct xfs_bmbt_rec_host {
> __uint64_t l0, l1;
> } xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t;
>
> is not defined with __beXX types like the disk format version of this
> structure which is:
>
> typedef struct xfs_bmbt_rec_64 {
> __be64 l0, l1;
> } xfs_bmbt_rec_64_t;
>

Sorry for the noise, I didn't notice the (slightly) different struct
types. Just the very similar looking blocks in both functions.

My Bad,

Harvey

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