Re: [PATCH 00/28] nios2 Linux kernel port

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 22 April 2014 18:37:11 Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> Hi Arnd and Peter Anvin,
> 
> Other than 64-bit time_t, clock_t and suseconds_t, can you confirm
> that we don't need to have 64 bit off_t? See detail in link below.
> I can submit the patches for 64-bit time changes
> (include/asm-generic/posix_types.h and other archs) if everyone is
> agreed on this.

Yes.

> Excerpt from https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/14/358 :
> "Obviously, we want to use 64-bit off_t, but this is achieved already
> through loff_t, which is used in all places in the asm-generic
> ABI anyway (the syscalls using off_t are stripped out). I don't
> think we want to have the other ones set to 64 bit on ARC or Meta,
> although I'm not 100% sure about ino_t and nlink_t. "

This is all still true. You should have no syscall using 'off_t',
only loff_t.

I still don't know whether we would want 32 or 64 bit ino_t and nlink_t
for new architectures. It seems it would gain very little, but have
a noticeable overhead.

	Arnd
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