Re: [RFC][PATCH] sys_fallocate() system call

Stephen Rothwell
2007-03-17T06:03:49Z

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:01:01 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>

> +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
>
> --- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> +++ linux-2.6.20.1/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> @@ -305,3 +305,4 @@ SYSCALL_SPU(faccessat)
> COMPAT_SYS_SPU(get_robust_list)
> COMPAT_SYS_SPU(set_robust_list)
> COMPAT_SYS(move_pages)
> +SYSCALL(fallocate)

It is going to need to be a COMPAT_SYS call in powerpc because 32 bit
powerpc will pass the two loff_t's in pairs of registers while
64bit passes them in one register each.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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