From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5][TAKE3] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:42:46 -0700 Message-ID: <1179276167.4819.22.camel@dyn9047017103.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20070329101010.7a2b8783.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070330071417.GI355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070417125514.GA7574@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070418130600.GW5967@schatzie.adilger.int> <20070420135146.GA21352@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070420145918.GY355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070424121632.GA10136@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070426175056.GA25321@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070515193722.GA3487@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070515195421.GA2948@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070515200359.GA5834@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, suparna@in.ibm.com To: "Amit K. Arora" Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:34077 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759664AbXEPAmu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 20:42:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070515200359.GA5834@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 01:33 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 > and powerpc platforms. > @@ -1137,6 +1148,8 @@ struct inode_operations { > ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t); > int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); > void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t); > + long (*fallocate)(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, > + loff_t len); > }; Does the return value from fallocate inode operation has to be *long*? It's not consistent with the ext4_fallocate() define in patch 4/5, +int ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) thus cause compile warnings. Mingming