linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: make pagoff

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Message-ID: <20161218092329.GA16618@lst.de>
Date:   Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:23:29 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
        "Dr. Philipp Tomsich" <philipp.tomsich@...obroma-systems.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: make pagoff_t type 64-bit

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 04:25:14PM +0530, Yury Norov wrote:
>  1 leave things as is. 32-bit architectures will have no option to
>    mmap big offsets, and no one cares - as usual.

And that's the only sensible option.