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From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
To: Jordan Richards <jordanrichards@google.com>
Cc: dmatlack@google.com, jasonmiu@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
	 pratyush@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	w@1wt.eu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: add ftruncate()
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 23:30:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <596c05a0-caee-4696-8136-e89081b7c68a@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260302222043.2432413-1-jordanrichards@google.com>

On 2026-03-02 22:20:43+0000, Jordan Richards wrote:

(...)

> > off_t is now always 64bit on nolibc. On 32-bit architectures however
> > __NR_ftruncate only takes a 32bit value, leading to the wrong kind of
> > truncation. Use __NR_ftruncate64 instead where available.
> 
> Good call. On some archs (arm, mips, ppc) register pairs need to start
> in an even register. I assume adding a flag like:
> 
>   #define ARCH_ALIGN_REGISTER_PAIR 1
> 
> in "nolibc/arch-xxx.h" is appropriate?

I would use a custom sys_ftruncate64() wrapper function for those.
Similar to sys_mmap() on some architectures or sys_fork() on s390.

(...)

Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-02 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-05 22:23 [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/liveupdate: add end to end test infrastructure and scripts Jordan Richards
2026-02-05 22:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tools/nolibc: add ftruncate() Jordan Richards
2026-02-06 21:55   ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-03-02 22:20     ` Jordan Richards
2026-03-02 22:30       ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2026-02-05 22:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/liveupdate: add end to end test infrastructure and scripts Jordan Richards
2026-02-06 22:06   ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-02-09 20:56     ` Jordan Richards
2026-02-08 18:27   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-10 14:18     ` Pratyush Yadav

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