On Tuesday 29 December 2015 12:26:35 Yury Norov wrote:
> All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type, but existing
> architectures has 32-bit ones.
>
> To handle it, new config option is added to arch/Kconfig that defaults
> ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T to be disabled for non-64 bit architectures. All existing
> 32-bit architectures enable it explicitly here.
>
> New option affects force_o_largefile() behaviour. Namely, if off_t is
> 64-bits long, we have no reason to reject user to open big files.
>
> Note that even if architectures has only 64-bit off_t in the kernel
> (arc, c6x, h8300, hexagon, metag, nios2, openrisc, tile32 and unicore32),
> a libc may use 32-bit off_t, and therefore want to limit the file size
> to 4GB unless specified differently in the open flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yno...@caviumnetworks.com>
>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Should we merge the two patches through my asm-generic tree now, or should
we keep them in the ilp32 series, any preferences?
I think either way works.
Arnd
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