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SubjectRe: spinlock contention of files->file_lock
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 07:02:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Shouldn't a cmpxchg() in just the dup2 code solve that?
>
> If the old value was NULL, you'd have to repeat and go back and see if
> the open_fds[] bit had been cleared in the meantime (ie it's NULL not
> because somebody else is busy installing it, but because somebody just
> uninstalled it).

Yechh... Under ->file_lock (in do_dup2()), hopefully? Or you'll get
all kinds of fun with close() thrown into the game, as well...

> But yeah, I do agree that that sounds nasty and a complication I
> hadn't even thought about. dup2() does violate our normal "let's
> pre-allocate the fd slot" rule. Ugh.

Hell knows... Descriptor handling *is* pretty well isolated these
days, so it just might be doable without disrupting the living hell
out of anything else. fs/file.c is pretty much it - everything else
goes through it.

I've enough on my plate at the moment with fs/namespace.c and fs/namei.c,
though, and praying hard fs/inode.c doesn't enter the game. I _know_
that fs/notify will and I'm not enjoying that for a second. BTW, has
eparis resurfaced with any fixes for *notify/umount races? I don't seem
to have anything related in the mailbox, but...


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