Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:46:26 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 07/11] proc: flush task dcache entries from all procfs instances |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> wrote: > > This allows to flush dcache entries of a task on multiple procfs mounts > per pid namespace. > > The RCU lock is used because the number of reads at the task exit time > is much larger than the number of procfs mounts.
Ok, this looks better to me than the previous version.
But that may be the "pee-in-the-snow" effect, and I _really_ want others to take a good look at the whole series.
The right people seem to be cc'd, but this is pretty core, and /proc has a tendency to cause interesting issues because of how it's involved in a lot of areas indirectly.
Al, Oleg, Andy, Eric?
Linus
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