Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:53:07 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2) |
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Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 04:00, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>That's racy, unfortunately :P >> > > > Sorry, please, explain what is racy. > reiserfs_truncate and reiserfs_release call that function after they have inode's mutex locked.
Calling truncate inside i_size (ie. vmtruncate_range is also racy), because of the way that the pagefault side of the equation works (eg. truncate_count).
But if you're only calling truncate on files that are never mmapped, then I think that race should disappear.
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