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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mfasheh@suse.com, joel.becker@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:38:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901310138.34164.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130162252.7bf9c1f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Saturday 31 January 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:29:11 +0530 Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org> wrote:
> > +struct space_resv {
> > +	__s16		l_type;
> > +	__s16		l_whence;
> > +	__s64		l_start;
> > +	__s64		l_len;		/* len == 0 means until end of file */
> > +	__s32		l_sysid;
> > +	__u32		l_pid;
> > +	__s32		l_pad[4];	/* reserve area			    */
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP		_IOW('X', 40, struct space_resv)
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP64		_IOW('X', 42, struct space_resv)
> 
> Are we sure that the aligment of l_start will be reliably the same
> across all compilers and versions thereof for all time?

On x86, the alignment differs between 32 and 64 bit, otherwise it's ok.
XFS handles the conversion for compat_ioctl in
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c. If this becomes a generic file ioctl,
the conversion code should be moved to fs/compat_ioctl.c.

	Arnd <><

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mfasheh@suse.com,
	joel.becker@oracle.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:39:04 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901310138.34164.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130162252.7bf9c1f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Saturday 31 January 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:29:11 +0530 Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org> wrote:
> > +struct space_resv {
> > +	__s16		l_type;
> > +	__s16		l_whence;
> > +	__s64		l_start;
> > +	__s64		l_len;		/* len == 0 means until end of file */
> > +	__s32		l_sysid;
> > +	__u32		l_pid;
> > +	__s32		l_pad[4];	/* reserve area			    */
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP		_IOW('X', 40, struct space_resv)
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP64		_IOW('X', 42, struct space_resv)
> 
> Are we sure that the aligment of l_start will be reliably the same
> across all compilers and versions thereof for all time?

On x86, the alignment differs between 32 and 64 bit, otherwise it's ok.
XFS handles the conversion for compat_ioctl in
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c. If this becomes a generic file ioctl,
the conversion code should be moved to fs/compat_ioctl.c.

	Arnd <><

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, mfasheh@suse.com,
	joel.becker@oracle.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:38:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901310138.34164.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130162252.7bf9c1f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Saturday 31 January 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:29:11 +0530 Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org> wrote:
> > +struct space_resv {
> > +	__s16		l_type;
> > +	__s16		l_whence;
> > +	__s64		l_start;
> > +	__s64		l_len;		/* len == 0 means until end of file */
> > +	__s32		l_sysid;
> > +	__u32		l_pid;
> > +	__s32		l_pad[4];	/* reserve area			    */
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP		_IOW('X', 40, struct space_resv)
> > +#define F_IOC_RESVSP64		_IOW('X', 42, struct space_resv)
> 
> Are we sure that the aligment of l_start will be reliably the same
> across all compilers and versions thereof for all time?

On x86, the alignment differs between 32 and 64 bit, otherwise it's ok.
XFS handles the conversion for compat_ioctl in
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c. If this becomes a generic file ioctl,
the conversion code should be moved to fs/compat_ioctl.c.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-31  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28 20:59 [PATCH] fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls Ankit Jain
2009-01-28 20:59 ` Ankit Jain
2009-01-28 20:59 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Ankit Jain
2009-01-31  0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  0:23   ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  0:22   ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  0:38   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-01-31  0:39     ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-31  0:38     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-31  1:14     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  1:14       ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  1:14       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-31  1:48       ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-31  1:49         ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-31  1:48         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-31  1:48         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-01  9:48         ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01  9:48           ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01  9:48           ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 10:05           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 10:05             ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 10:05             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 10:39             ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 10:39               ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 10:39               ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 10:59               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 11:00                 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 10:59                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-01 12:32                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 12:33                   ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 12:32                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 15:37                   ` [xfs-masters] " Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 15:41                     ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 15:37                     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 16:25                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 16:26                       ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 16:25                       ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 16:35                       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 16:36                         ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 16:35                         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-01 16:41                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-01 16:45                           ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-01 16:41                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-01 16:57                           ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 16:58                             ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-01 16:57                             ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  0:31                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-02  0:32                               ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-02  0:31                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-02  8:29                               ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  8:30                                 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  8:29                                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  8:45                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-02  8:45                                   ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-02  8:45                                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-02-02  9:33                                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  9:34                                     ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02  9:33                                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-02 20:51                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-02 20:53                                       ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-02-02 20:51                                       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-03  7:31                                       ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-03  7:32                                         ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-03  7:31                                         ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-03 11:21                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-03 11:21                                           ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-02-03 11:21                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-19 18:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-19 18:28   ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-19 18:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-20  8:13   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-23 22:05     ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-20  8:13     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-21 18:41     ` [xfs-masters] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-21 18:46       ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-21 18:41       ` Christoph Hellwig

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