diff --git a/fs/ext3/dir.c b/fs/ext3/dir.c
index c2c3491b18cf..fd4b6dd71150 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/dir.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int ext3_readdir(struct file * filp,
 				 * not the directory has been modified
 				 * during the copy operation.
 				 */
-				unsigned long version = filp->f_version;
+				u64 version = filp->f_version;
 
 				error = filldir(dirent, de->name,
 						de->name_len,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index e11890acfa21..0fb1e62b20d0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int ext4_readdir(struct file * filp,
 				 * not the directory has been modified
 				 * during the copy operation.
 				 */
-				unsigned long version = filp->f_version;
+				u64 version = filp->f_version;
 
 				error = filldir(dirent, de->name,
 						de->name_len,
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
index 7453b70c1a19..6a2f143e269c 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ int __ocfs2_add_entry(handle_t *handle,
 }
 
 static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
-				    unsigned long *f_version,
+				    u64 *f_version,
 				    loff_t *f_pos, void *priv,
 				    filldir_t filldir, int *filldir_err)
 {
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
 			 * not the directory has been modified
 			 * during the copy operation.
 			 */
-			unsigned long version = *f_version;
+			u64 version = *f_version;
 			unsigned char d_type = DT_UNKNOWN;
 
 			if (de->file_type < OCFS2_FT_MAX)
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
 }
 
 static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(struct inode *inode,
-				    unsigned long *f_version,
+				    u64 *f_version,
 				    loff_t *f_pos, void *priv,
 				    filldir_t filldir, int *filldir_err)
 {
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(struct inode *inode,
 	return stored;
 }
 
-static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk(struct inode *inode, unsigned long *f_version,
+static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk(struct inode *inode, u64 *f_version,
 				 loff_t *f_pos, void *priv, filldir_t filldir,
 				 int *filldir_err)
 {
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ int ocfs2_dir_foreach(struct inode *inode, loff_t *f_pos, void *priv,
 		      filldir_t filldir)
 {
 	int ret = 0, filldir_err = 0;
-	unsigned long version = inode->i_version;
+	u64 version = inode->i_version;
 
 	while (*f_pos < i_size_read(inode)) {
 		ret = ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk(inode, &version, f_pos, priv,
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 78fdfea1a7f8..ea115d4c9f59 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2586,7 +2586,7 @@ static int proc_task_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldi
 	/* f_version caches the tgid value that the last readdir call couldn't
 	 * return. lseek aka telldir automagically resets f_version to 0.
 	 */
-	tid = filp->f_version;
+	tid = (int)filp->f_version;
 	filp->f_version = 0;
 	for (task = first_tid(leader, tid, pos - 2);
 	     task;
@@ -2595,7 +2595,7 @@ static int proc_task_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldi
 		if (proc_task_fill_cache(filp, dirent, filldir, task, tid) < 0) {
 			/* returning this tgid failed, save it as the first
 			 * pid for the next readir call */
-			filp->f_version = tid;
+			filp->f_version = (u64)tid;
 			put_task_struct(task);
 			break;
 		}
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index bb89a5dfe9ad..30aca3399450 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ struct file {
 	unsigned int		f_uid, f_gid;
 	struct file_ra_state	f_ra;
 
-	unsigned long		f_version;
+	u64			f_version;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
 	void			*f_security;
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
index 8bf1e05115b4..ebbc02b325fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct seq_file {
 	size_t from;
 	size_t count;
 	loff_t index;
-	loff_t version;
+	u64 version;
 	struct mutex lock;
 	const struct seq_operations *op;
 	void *private;