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authorYury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>2018-05-16 11:18:49 +0300
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2019-02-19 10:10:05 +0100
commit942fa985e9f161ac018ce2230d3e6f7668cca6ac (patch)
treec4f0d0fead0b4a0af0a1f6ecf87d8f79295b9485 /arch/Kconfig
parent0d0216c03a7a14e121abb2e3eb38e491767c36e8 (diff)
downloadlinux-942fa985e9f161ac018ce2230d3e6f7668cca6ac.tar.gz
32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option
All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit userspace off_t type, but
existing architectures has 32-bit ones.

To enforce the rule, new config option is added to arch/Kconfig that defaults
ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T to be disabled for new 32-bit architectures. All existing
32-bit architectures enable it explicitly.

New option affects force_o_largefile() behaviour. Namely, if userspace
off_t is 64-bits long, we have no reason to reject user to open big files.

Note that even if architectures has only 64-bit off_t in the kernel
(arc, c6x, h8300, hexagon, nios2, openrisc, and unicore32),
a libc may use 32-bit off_t, and therefore want to limit the file size
to 4GB unless specified differently in the open flags.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 46db715a7f42..cd5f443865ec 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -276,6 +276,16 @@ config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
 config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
+	bool
+	depends on !64BIT
+	help
+	  All new 32-bit architectures should have 64-bit off_t type on
+	  userspace side which corresponds to the loff_t kernel type. This
+	  is the requirement for modern ABIs. Some existing architectures
+	  still support 32-bit off_t. This option is enabled for all such
+	  architectures explicitly.
+
 config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	bool
 	help