On 06/14/17 11:53, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> This is a proposal to allow 64bit count to copy and return as
> a result of a copy_file_range. No attempt was made to share code
> with the 32bit function because 32bit interface should probably
> get depreciated.
deprecated.
>
> Why use 64bit? Current uses of 32bit are by clone_file_range()
> which could use 64bit count and NFS copy_file_range also supports
> 64bit count value.
>
> Also with this proposal off-the-bet allow the userland to copy
what does "off-the-bet" mean?
> between different mount points.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
> fs/read_write.c | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/fs.h | 4 +
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 +
> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +-
> kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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~Randy
