Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: send correct UUID to cleancache initialization

From: Joel Becker
Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 04:50:32 EST


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:47:17PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> ocfs2: Fix cleancache initialization call to correctly pass uuid
>
> As reported by Steven Whitehouse in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/27/221
> the ocfs2 volume UUID is incorrectly passed to cleancache.
> As a result, shared-ephemeral tmem pools will not actually
> be created; instead they will be private (unshared) which
> misses out on a major benefit of tmem.
>
> Reported-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch is now in the 'fixes' branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
> @@ -2374,7 +2374,7 @@ static int ocfs2_initialize_super(struct super_block *sb,
> mlog_errno(status);
> goto bail;
> }
> - cleancache_init_shared_fs((char *)&uuid_net_key, sb);
> + cleancache_init_shared_fs((char *)&di->id2.i_super.s_uuid, sb);
>
> bail:
> return status;

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