Re: [PATCH] fs/ext4/super.c: Let 'counters' switched by SMP

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Mon Jul 21 2014 - 13:40:15 EST


Hi Ted,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:05:29AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>> When SMP is disabled, 'struct percpu_counter' has no 'counters' member,
>> so need skip it when in !SMP.
>>
>> The related git commit:
>>
>> "feab139 ext4: rearrange initialization to fix EXT4FS_DEBUG".
>>
>> The related error (with allmodconfig under score):
>>
>> CC [M] fs/ext4/super.o
>> fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_commit_super':
>> fs/ext4/super.c:4546:41: error: 'struct percpu_counter' has no member named 'counters'
>> if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_freeclusters_counter.counters)
>> ^
>> fs/ext4/super.c:4550:39: error: 'struct percpu_counter' has no member named 'counters'
>> if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_freeinodes_counter.counters)
>
> Thanks for the pointing out the problem. I though think the right way
> of fixing this problem, though, instead of using the #ifdef
> CONFIG_SMP, is to do this:
>
> if (percpu_counter_initialized(&EXT4_SB(sb)->s_freeclusters_counter))
> ...
>
> I'll respin the "ext4: rearrange initialization to fix EXT4FS_DEBUG"
> commit to include this fix and give you credit in the commit logs for
> pointing out this issue.

Friendly ping, since all !SMP builds in -next seem to be broken by this still.


-Olof
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