tree b7789cee4e6484d5063a28a59dcf320ee4676017
parent cda402b283c34a24b091f78eee116963e9494762
author Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> 1144734810 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1144761515 -0700

[PATCH] uml: safe migration path to the correct V3 COW format

- Correct the layout of all header versions - make all them well-specified
  for any external event.  As we don't have 1-byte or 2-byte wide fields, the
  32-bit layout (historical one) has no extra padding, so we can safely add
  __attribute__((packed)).

- Add detection and reading of the broken 64-bit COW format which has been
  around for a while - to allow safe migration to the correct 32-bit format.
  Safe detection is possible, thanks to some luck with the existing format,
  and it works in practice.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>