From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sys_fallocate() system call
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:10:37 -0600
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:17:04PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> 
> e.g.
> 
> asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
> 
> would work even on s390 ;)

How about:

asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, u32 off_low, u32 off_high,
				u32 len_low, u32 len_high);

That way we all suffer equally ...