linux-kernel - Re: consolidate the flock uapi definitions

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Date:   Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:03:40 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
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        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: consolidate the flock uapi definitions

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:55 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> currently we deal with the slight differents in the various architecture
> variants of the flock and flock64 stuctures in a very cruft way.  This
> series switches to just use small arch hooks and define the rest in
> asm-generic and linux/compat.h instead.

Nice cleanup. I can merge it through the asm-generic tree if you like,
though it's a little late just ahead of the merge window.

I would not want to change the compat_loff_t definition to compat_s64
to avoid the padding at this time, though that might be a useful cleanup
for a future cycle.

        Arnd