Re: [PATCH 03/10] readahead: combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_pos

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 00:00:06 EST


On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:52:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0800 Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > - ra->prev_index = page->index;
> > + ra->prev_pos = page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>
> bug! The rhs will get truncated befire it gets assigned to
> the lhs. Need to cast page->index to loff_t.
>
> I'll fix this one up. Please review the other patches for this?

Thank you. Be sure to update *all* the lines:
ra->prev_pos = page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT

Other places should have been taken care of.

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