Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] fs: change ki_complete interface to support 64bit ret2
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-07-26 15:18:29
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:19:18PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
From: SelvaKumar S <redacted> kiocb->ki_complete(...,long ret2) - change ret2 to long long. This becomes handy to return 64bit written-offset with appending write. Change callers using ki_complete prototype.
There is no need for this at all. By the time ki_complete is called ki_pos contains the new offset, and you just have to subtract res from that.