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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-490b7e6c774sm70203515e9.1.2026.06.04.02.06.11 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 10:06:09 +0100 From: David Laight To: Askar Safin Cc: metze@samba.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, axboe@kernel.dk, brauner@kernel.org, david@kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, pfalcato@suse.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, willy@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2 Message-ID: <20260604100609.6b37f500@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: <20260603211736.755139-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> References: <20260603211736.755139-1-safinaskar@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 00:17:36 +0300 Askar Safin wrote: > Stefan Metzmacher : > > Why is 'int fd' changed to 'unsigned long fd'? > > Because preadv2 and pwritev2 take "unsigned long". I want vmsplice > to be as similar as possible to preadv2 and pwritev2. Something needs to ensure that the high 32bits of the fd get masked off on 64bit systems. They can be non-zero in the register that comes from userspace. -- David > > > Should that be its own commit if the change is desired? > > Yes, possibly. But this patchset already got to next. >