On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:10:34PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0530 Amit K. Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
+++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
@@ -879,3 +879,11 @@ asmlinkage long
Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S
===
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S 2007-06-11
16:16:01.0 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S 2007-06-11
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:20:56PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
Based on the discussion, this new patchset uses following as the
interface for fallocate() system call:
asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
It seems that only s390 architecture has a
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:43:28PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
On Fri, 27 April 2007 14:10:03 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
After long discussions where at least two possible implementations
were suggested that would work on _all_ architectures you chose one
which doesn't and causes extra
and Russell have suggested another option of breaking each
loff_t into two u32s. This will result in 6 arguments in total.
Following think that this is a good alternative:
Matthew Wilcox, Russell King, Heiko Carstens
Following do not like this idea:
Chris Wedgwood
It's a bit weird
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:14:17AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:10:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
Platform: s390
--
s390 prefers following layout:
int fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
For details on why and
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:44:49PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
On Fri, 30 March 2007 19:15:58 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
It does mean extra unnecessary work for 64-bit platforms, though...
Wouldn't that work be confined to fallocate()? If I understand Heiko
correctly, the alternative would
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:54:04PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:21:03PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:01:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t
len)
Currently we
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:07:06AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:59:05PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
... but wouldn't work on 32-bit powerpc. :( We would end up with a
pad argument between fd and offset, giving 7 arguments in all
(counting the loff_t's as 2), but
