Honestly, I think the patches like this are disgusting: On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > +#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PREADWRITE64 > +#if defined(__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_WITH_PADDING) && \ > + defined(__ARCH_WANT_LE_COMPAT_SYS) > +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(pread64, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, ubuf, > + u32, count, u32, padding, u32, poslo, u32, poshi) > +#elif defined(__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_WITH_PADDING) && \ > + !defined(__ARCH_WANT_LE_COMPAT_SYS) > +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(pread64, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, ubuf, > + u32, count, u32, padding, u32, poshi, u32, poslo) > +#elif !defined(__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_WITH_PADDING) && \ > + defined(__ARCH_WANT_LE_COMPAT_SYS) > +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pread64, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, ubuf, > + u32, count, u32, poslo, u32, poshi) > +#else /* no padding, big endian */ > +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pread64, unsigned int, fd, char __user *, ubuf, > + u32, count, u32, poshi, u32, poslo) > +#endif > +{ > +#ifdef CONFIG_S390 > + if ((compat_ssize_t) count < 0) > + return -EINVAL; > +#endif /* CONFIG_S390 */ and we should just keep code like this entirely architecture-dependent. It doesn't save all that many lines: 19 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) and the lines it adds are an unreadable mess compared to the lines it removes. So please keep the high/low/padding stuff in the arch wrapper, and just make them use "do_pwrite64()" and friends instead (or "kern_pwrite64()", or whatever we ended up using as the kernel naming for in-kernel system call wrappers). Linus