Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:42:08 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.68 2/2] i_size atomic access |
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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).
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