Andrew Morton writes:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:33:32 +0530 "Amit K. Arora"
> <aarora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This patch implements the fallocate() system call and adds support for
> > i386, x86_64 and powerpc.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
>
> Please add a comment over this function which specifies its behaviour.
> Really it should be enough material from which a full manpage can be
> written.
This looks like it will have the same problem on s390 as
sys_sync_file_range. Maybe the prototype should be:
asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode)
Paul.
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