Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] Btrfs: introduce subvol uuids and times

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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +static long btrfs_ioctl_set_received_subvol(struct file *file,
>> +                                           void __user *arg)
>> +{
>> +       struct btrfs_ioctl_received_subvol_args *sa = NULL;
>
>
>> +       ret = copy_to_user(arg, sa, sizeof(*sa));
>
>
>> +struct btrfs_ioctl_received_subvol_args {
>> +       char    uuid[BTRFS_UUID_SIZE];  /* in */
>> +       __u64   stransid;               /* in */
>> +       __u64   rtransid;               /* out */
>> +       struct timespec stime;          /* in */
>> +       struct timespec rtime;          /* out */
>> +       __u64   reserved[16];
>> +};
>
>
> Careful, timespec will be different sizes in 32bit userspace and a 64bit
> kernel.  I'd use btrfs_timespec to get a fixed size timespec and avoid
> all the compat_timespec noise.  (I'd then also worry about padding and
> might pack the struct.. I always lose track of the best practice across
> all archs.)
Hmm we currently don't have ctree.h in ioctl.h. Can I include it there
or are there problems with that? As an alternative I could define my
own struct for that.
>
> - z
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