From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410161515.GG20656@duck.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080410180335.6a748c78.diegocg@gmail.com>
On Thu 10-04-08 18:03:35, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:09 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> escribió:
>
> > I think this is worth fixing.
>
> This question comes very often, and Linus even wrote a patch
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 , http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130)
>
> But apparently there's no much interest in fixing it, because it would
> slow down some workloads...
Well, what Linus writes about is a different issue (and with a more
costly solution). Here we are concerned just with the problem that
file->f_pos = pos;
isn't atomic on some archs.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 8:05 file offset corruption on 32-bit machines? Meelis Roos
2008-04-10 13:55 ` Michal Hocko
2008-04-10 14:01 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-04-10 14:27 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 14:31 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-04-10 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-10 15:22 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 15:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-10 15:19 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2008-04-10 15:56 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 16:03 ` Diego Calleja
2008-04-10 16:03 ` Diego Calleja
2008-04-10 16:15 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2008-04-11 19:26 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-14 16:25 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 14:31 ` Michal Hocko
2008-04-10 14:35 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-04-10 14:11 ` Martin Mares
2008-04-10 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 15:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-10 15:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-10 15:28 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-10 15:33 ` Andi Kleen
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2008-04-11 12:24 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-04-11 12:24 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-04-11 13:55 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-11 16:59 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-04-11 17:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-11 21:29 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-04-12 8:48 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-14 16:20 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-14 16:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 16:53 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-14 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-14 18:34 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-14 17:06 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 19:03 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-14 19:29 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 19:42 ` Jan Kara
2008-04-14 19:45 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 8:57 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 15:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 17:34 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 18:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 19:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 19:49 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 20:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 20:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-16 8:15 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-16 8:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-16 10:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-16 13:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 20:29 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15 22:11 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-04-16 9:40 ` Jamie Lokier
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