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 problem with such a layout of > arguments in fallocate(). Thus for s390, we plan to have a wrapper > (say, sys_s390_fallocate()) for the sys_fallocate(), which will get > called by glibc when an application issues a fallocate() system call > on s390. The s390 arch specific changes will be part of a separate > patch (PATCH 2/5). It will be great if some s390 expert can verify the > patch, since I have not been able to test it on s390 so far. 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 effort. > It was also noted that minor changes might be required to strace code > to take care of "different arguments on s390" issue. This is not limited to strace... Besides that the s390 backend looks ok. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
