On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:02:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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 <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > 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 I'd prefer asm-generic tree because they are not related to ILP32 only. Yury. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
