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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e4defrag: fix build when posix_fadvise is missing
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 21:08:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140101190800.GA6589@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140101173744.GD17519@thunk.org>

Hi Ted,

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:37:44PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 07:31:46PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > Or do you mean that for some reason, uClibc is not providing
> > > posix_fadvise on all architectures, even though the kernel supports it?
> > > 
> > > That seems wierd.
> > 
> > The xtensa architecture has __NR_fadvise64_64 but not __NR_fadvise64. Should I 
> > clarify this in the commit log?
> 
> Is uClibc providing a posix_fadvise64()?

Yes. uClibc does provide posix_fadvise64() when __NR_fadvise64_64 is 
available.

> Maybe the better fix would be to try to use posix_fadvise64 if it is exists, 
> with posix_fadvise() and the locally defined posix_fadvise() as fallbacks.

OK. So you suggest to add another autoconf test for posix_fadvise64 and use 
that as a fall back before trying direct syscall()?

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 10:28 [PATCH] e4defrag: fix build when posix_fadvise is missing Baruch Siach
2014-01-01 17:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-01 17:31   ` Baruch Siach
2014-01-01 17:37     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-01 19:08       ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2014-01-01 20:46         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-02  6:49           ` Baruch Siach

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