I hate to comment at this late stage, especially on something that I
think is really a great idea (I did similar more complex, sys_blkalloc
with even more arguments time ago --- I'm glad given how complex this
thread has become I didn't post them now).
In the past there wasn't that much incentive
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:10:37AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> How about:
>
> asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, u32 off_low, u32 off_high,
> u32 len_low, u32 len_high);
>
> That way we all suffer equally ...
As suggested by you and Russel, I have ma
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)
> > >
> > > C
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:33:50PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:01:01 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> > +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> >
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:
> > First of all, thanks for the overwhelming response!
> >
> > Based on the suggestions received, I have added a new parameter to the
> > sys_fallocate() system call -
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:01:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Attached below is the patch which implements this system call. It has
> been currently implemented and tested on i386, ppc64 and x86_64
> architectures. I am facing some problems while trying to implement this
> on s390, and thus the
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:38:38 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:30:43 +0100 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > sys_sync_file_range(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes, unsigned int
> > flags)
> >
> > But from what I read, it's currently not
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:30:43 +0100 Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> sys_sync_file_range(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes, unsigned int flags)
>
> But from what I read, it's currently not possible for 32-bit powerpc to
> wire up the already present sync_file_range system call.
32bi
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
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:17:04PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
>
> e.g.
>
> asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
>
> would work even on s390 ;)
How about:
asmlinkage long sys_
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 we only support 6.
Ditto mips and parisc.
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Heiko Carstens writes:
> So you either rearrange the parameters or convert the loff_t's to pointers.
>
> e.g.
>
> asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
>
> would work even on s390 ;)
... but wouldn't work on 32-bit powerpc. :( We would end up with a
pad ar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:01:01 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
>
> --- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> +++ linux-2.6.20.1/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> @@ -305,3 +305,4 @@ SYSCALL_SP
> on s390, and thus the delay. While I try to get it right on s390(x), we
> thought of posting this patch, so that we can save some time. Parallely
> we will work on getting the patch work on s390, and probably it will
> come as a separate patch.
>
> +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:01:01PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> First of all, thanks for the overwhelming response!
>
> Based on the suggestions received, I have added a new parameter to the
> sys_fallocate() system call - an interger called "mode", just after the
> "fd". Now the system call look
First of all, thanks for the overwhelming response!
Based on the suggestions received, I have added a new parameter to the
sys_fallocate() system call - an interger called "mode", just after the
"fd". Now the system call looks like this:
asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t off
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