Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call

Andreas Dilger
2007-04-06T10:20:00Z

On Apr 05, 2007 16:56 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> This should work on all the platforms. The only concern I can think of
> here is the convention being followed till now, where all the entities on
> which the action has to be performed by the kernel (say fd, file/device
> name, pid etc.) is the first argument of the system call. If we can live
> with the small exception here, fine.

Yes, it is much cleaner to have fd first, like every other such syscall.

> Or else, we may have to implement the
>
> int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len
>
> as the layout of arguments here. I think only s390 will have a problem
> with this, and we can think of a workaround for it (may be similar to
> what ARM did to implement sync_file_range() system call) :
>
> asmlinkage long sys_s390_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
> {
> return sys_fallocate(fd, offset, len, mode);
> }

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.