On 06/07/22 at 11:52am, Pasha Tatashin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 10:45 PM Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 05/27/22 at 02:55am, Pasha Tatashin wrote: > > > Currently, the maximum file size that is supported is 2G. This may be > > > too small in some cases. For example, kexec_file_load() system call > > > loads initramfs. In some netboot cases initramfs can be rather large. > > > > > > Allow to use up-to ssize_t bytes. The callers still can limit the > > > maximum file size via buf_size. > > > > If we really met initramfs bigger than 2G, it's reasonable to increase > > the limit. While wondering why we should take sszie_t, but not size_t. > > ssize_t instead of size_t so we can return errors as negative values. Makes sense. Thanks.
