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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.68 2/2] i_size atomic access
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:42:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030425014208.GC26194@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424180503.2c2a8bea.akpm@digeo.com>

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:05:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And if the race _does_ hit, what is the effect?  Assuming stat() was fixed
> with i_sem, I don't think the race has a very serious effect.  We won't

writepage needs it too to avoid returning -EIO and I doubt you want to
take the i_sem in writepage

readpage is another obvious candidate where taking the i_sem is not an
option (even if it's one not risking to lose info in the fs, but it can
lose info in userspace or generate a malfunction).

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-25  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-25  0:30 [PATCH 2.5.68 2/2] i_size atomic access Daniel McNeil
2003-04-25  1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-25  1:42   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2003-04-25 10:57     ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-25 23:17       ` Daniel McNeil
2003-04-30  0:40         ` Daniel McNeil

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