linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/20] 32-bit ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:09:50 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/20] 32-bit ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config
 option

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:59:51PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type, but existing
> architectures has 32-bit ones.
> 
> To handle it, new config option is added to arch/Kconfig that defaults
> ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T to be disabled for non-64 bit architectures. All existing
> 32-bit architectures enable it explicitly here.
> 
> New option affects force_o_largefile() behaviour. Namely, if off_t is
> 64-bits long, we have no reason to reject user to open big files.
> 
> Note that even if architectures has only 64-bit off_t in the kernel
> (arc, c6x, h8300, hexagon, metag, nios2, openrisc, tile32 and unicore32),
> a libc may use 32-bit off_t, and therefore want to limit the file size
> to 4GB unless specified differently in the open flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
[...]
> diff --git a/include/linux/fcntl.h b/include/linux/fcntl.h
> index 1b48d9c9a561..297993c92490 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fcntl.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>  	 O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE)
>  
>  #ifndef force_o_largefile
> -#define force_o_largefile() (BITS_PER_LONG != 32)
> +#define force_o_largefile() (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T))
>  #endif

I may have confused myself with which off_t is 64-bit here for new
32-bit architectures. Are we referring to the glibc definition, the
kernel one or simply that force_o_largefile() is true by default.
Because the type off_t for 32-bit kernel builds is still, well, 32-bit.

Otherwise it seems that the first paragraph in the description above
should read "all new 32-bit ABIs on a 64-bit kernel..." but then
AArch64/ILP32 is no longer the same as a new, pure 32-bit architecture.

-- 
Catalin