Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix size of st_nlink on 64bit

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:19:29 +1000

On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 21:34 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> commit e57f93cc53b7 (powerpc: get rid of nlink_t uses, switch to
> explicitly-sized type) changed the size of st_nlink on ppc64 from
> a long to a short, resulting in boot failures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>

Al, did you CC me on that ? I don't remember seeing it but it could be
my fault...

Cheers,
Ben.

> ---
> 
> Index: linux-build/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stat.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-build.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stat.h	2012-06-02 21:25:50.322275743 +1000
> +++ linux-build/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stat.h	2012-06-02 21:26:35.183130538 +1000
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct stat {
>  	unsigned long	st_dev;
>  	ino_t		st_ino;
>  #ifdef __powerpc64__
> -	unsigned short	st_nlink;
> +	unsigned long	st_nlink;
>  	mode_t		st_mode;
>  #else
>  	mode_t		st_mode;