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From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > If we're going to go the route of changing the CQE, how about:
> > 
> >  struct io_uring_cqe {
> >          __u64   user_data;      /* sqe->data submission passed back */
> > -        __s32   res;            /* result code for this event */
> > -        __u32   flags;
> > +	union {
> > +		struct {
> > +		        __s32   res;            /* result code for this event */
> > +		        __u32   flags;
> > +		};
> > +		__s64	res64;
> > +	};
> >  };
> > 
> > then we don't need to change the CQE size and it just depends on the SQE
> > whether the CQE for it uses res+flags or res64.
> 
> How do you return a status code or short write when you just have
> a u64 that is needed for the offset?

it's an s64 not a u64 so you can return a negative errno.  i didn't
think we allowed short writes for objects-which-have-a-pos.