linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] open: add close

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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 11:57:04 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] open: add close_range()

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 09:43:53AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 6:33 PM Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 07:22:17PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > > On 22.05.2019 18:52, Christian Brauner wrote:> This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range
> > > >   22 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > It would be better to split arch/ wiring into separate patch for better readability.
> >
> > Ok. You mean only do x86 - seems to be the standard - and then move the
> > others into a separate patch? Doesn't seem worth to have a patch
> > per-arch, I'd think.
> 
> I think I would prefer the first patch to just add the call without wiring it up
> anywhere, and a second patch do add it on all architectures including x86.

I've split this into two patches and also bumped arm64
__NR_compat_syscalls that I've missed before as you mentioned!

Thanks!
Christian