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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/2] drivers/misc: sysgenid: add system generation id driver
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:15:05PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > - Solution
> >
> > The System Generation ID is a simple concept meant to alleviate the
> > issue by providing a monotonically increasing u32 counter that changes
> > each time the VM or container is restored from a snapshot.
>
> I'd make it u64.
>
> But as people explained, this has race problems that may be impossible
> to solve?

Well the read/write interface could be used in a safe way thinkably:

- application checks VM gen id
- application sends a transaction e.g. to database
- application re-checks VM gen id
- if id changed, application checks the database for duplicate
transactions

not sure how can the mmap interface be used safely.
Drop it for now?



> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> --
> http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek


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