Re: [GIT PULL] xfs: new code for 5.5

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Dec 02 2019 - 18:22:53 EST


On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 10:48 AM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FYI, Stephen Rothwell reported a merge conflict with the y2038 tree at
> the end of October[1]. His resolution looked pretty straightforward,
> though the current y2038 for-next branch no longer changes fs/ioctl.c
> (and the changes that were in it are not in upstream master), so that
> may not be necessary.

The changes and conflicts are definitely still there (now upstream),
I'm not sure what made you not see them. But thanks for the note, I
compared my end result with linux-next to verify.

My resolution is different from Stephen's. All my non-x86-64 FS_IOC_*
cases just do "goto found_handler", because the compat case is
identical for the native case outside of the special x86-64 alignment
behavior, and I think that's what Arnd meant to happen.

There was some other minor difference too, but it's also possible I
could have messed up, so cc'ing Stephen and Arnd on this just in case
they have comments.


Linus