From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org,
linuxram@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: create /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:41:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4792DF11.7040403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JGBVq-0002Or-H1@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> - for mount ID's use IDA (from the IDR library) instead of a 32bit
> counter, which could overflow
IDAs tend to get reused quickly, which can cause race conditions. Any
reason not to just use a 64-bit counter?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 11:05 [RFC][PATCH] VFS: create /proc/<pid>/mountinfo Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-20 5:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-20 8:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-20 8:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-23 13:49 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-23 19:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-23 19:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-20 11:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-20 12:20 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-20 12:20 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-21 19:48 ` Ram Pai
2008-01-21 19:48 ` Ram Pai
2008-01-21 21:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-21 21:53 ` Ram Pai
2008-01-21 21:53 ` Ram Pai
2008-01-21 22:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-21 22:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-22 20:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-01-22 20:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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