Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in __d_lookup with high dentry hashtable counts

Le vendredi 13 janvier 2012 à 09:52 -0600, Dimitri Sivanich a écrit :

When the number of dentry cache hash table entries gets too high
(2147483648 entries), use of a signed integer in the initialization
loop prevents the dentry_hashtable from getting initialized, resulting
in a panic in __d_lookup.  Fixing this in dcache_init and a few other
spots for consistency.

Well...

nr_dentry being an int, I dont think having a so big hash table is
needed/possible. Its probably a waste of memory ?

Maybe we should limit alloc_large_system_hash() to at most 2^30 slots.

[ And later, convert it to unsigned long *_hash_shift and unsigned long
*_hash_mask ]