Re: [PATCH] idr: fix idr corruption when id crosses a layerboundary

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 16:25:40 EST


On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:14:50 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> inotify has for months been been having problems keeping the fsnotify view of
> its objects in sync with the idr view of its objects. I discovered this was
> only ever the case with the 4096th object created.

Neato. Do you think this will help with all the inotify problems
people have been having?

Do you think this fix should go into 2.6.32.x and earlier?

Thanks.
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