Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-11 Thread Amit K. Arora
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 sys32

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
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 sys32

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Stephen Rothwell
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 sys32_fadvise64(int fd, > return sys_fadvise64_64(fd, ((u64)offset_hi << 3

[PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w