From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: stsp <stsp2@yandex.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fd/locks: allow get the lock owner by F_OFD_GETLK
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:05:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7fd8146f9c758a8e16faeb371ca04a701e1a7b8.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0188af4b-fc74-df61-8e00-5bc81bbcb1cc@yandex.ru>
On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 15:42 +0500, stsp wrote:
> 21.06.2023 15:35, Jeff Layton пишет:
> > I don't think we can change this at this point.
> >
> > The bottom line (again) is that OFD locks are owned by the file
> > descriptor (much like with flock()), and since file descriptors can be
> > shared across multiple process it's impossible to say that some single
> > process owns it.
> What's the problem with 2 owners?
> Can't you get one of them, rather than
> meaningless -1?
> Compare this situation with read locks.
> They can overlap, so when you get an
> info about a read lock (except for the
> new F_UNLCK case), you get the info
> about *some* of the locks in that range.
> In the case of multiple owners, you
> likewise get the info about about some
> owner. If you iteratively send them a
> "please release this lock" message
> (eg in a form of SIGKILL), then you
> traverse all, and end up with the
> lock-free area.
> Is there really any problem here?
Yes. Ambiguous answers are worse than none at all.
What problem are you trying to solve by having F_OFD_GETLK report a pid?
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-21 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-20 9:55 [PATCH 0/3] RFC: F_OFD_GETLK should provide more info Stas Sergeev
2023-06-20 9:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] fs/locks: F_UNLCK extension for F_OFD_GETLK Stas Sergeev
2023-06-20 10:46 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-20 11:00 ` stsp
2023-06-20 11:15 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-21 15:24 ` stsp
2023-06-20 9:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] fd/locks: allow get the lock owner by F_OFD_GETLK Stas Sergeev
2023-06-20 10:51 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-20 10:57 ` stsp
2023-06-20 11:12 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-20 11:45 ` stsp
2023-06-20 12:02 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-20 12:34 ` stsp
2023-06-20 13:19 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-20 13:39 ` stsp
2023-06-20 13:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-06-20 13:47 ` stsp
2023-06-20 14:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-06-20 15:45 ` stsp
2023-06-20 17:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-06-21 2:54 ` stsp
2023-06-23 13:10 ` David Laight
2023-06-20 13:58 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-21 6:57 ` stsp
2023-06-21 10:35 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-21 10:42 ` stsp
2023-06-21 11:05 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2023-06-21 11:22 ` stsp
2023-06-21 11:26 ` stsp
2023-06-23 15:25 ` Christian Brauner
2023-06-23 17:18 ` stsp
2023-06-27 16:00 ` Jeff Layton
2023-06-27 16:20 ` stsp
2023-06-20 9:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests: add OFD lock tests Stas Sergeev
2023-06-20 11:06 ` Jeff Layton
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