[LU-766] Incorrect HAVE_STATFS_DENTRY_PARAM result

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.2.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.0.0, Lustre 2.1.0, Lustre 1.8.6
• Environment: RHEL6.2 BETA, kernel-2.6.32-204
• Story Points: 1
• Severity: 3

Epic

server

• Assignee: Yang Sheng
• Reporter: Brian Behlendorf

Description

Building with RHEL6.2 beta (kernel-2.6.32-204) exposed that the
HAVE_STATFS_DENTRY_PARAM autoconf check was incorrect. The test
was setup to check the first argument of vfs_statfs() function.
However, the conditional code itself doesn't use the vfs_statfs()
function it registers a function with the sops->statfs() callback.

Historically, this always worked because both of these prototypes
were changed in a single upstream kernel commit (726c3342). However,
as of RHEL6.2 the vfs_statfs() function changed again and the
sops->statfs() callback stayed the same. The vfs_statfs() function
now takes a path structure as the first parameter.

This was fixed by simply updating the autoconf test to check the
prototype of the function were going to actually use.

Issue Links

• Trackbacks: Lustre 1.8.x known issues tracker While testing against Lustre b18 branch, we would hit known bugs which were already reported in Lustre Bugzilla https://bugzilla.lustre.org/. In order to move away from relying on Bugzilla, we would create a JIRA
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