From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks zerolength fix
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:30:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130113052.GB12579@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeac29teeu.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:30:33AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:15:39AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > writev with a zero-length segment is a noop, and we shouldn't return EFAULT.
> >>
> >> AFAICS the callers of these functions never pass a zero length.
> >
> > They can in the case of a zero length write.
>
> How? All (indirect) callers I could find explicitly handle the
> zero-length case.
Sorry, zero length iov to writev (just had to double-check
there ;).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 7:20 [patch 1/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks zerolength fix Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 7:22 ` [patch 2/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks stale holes fix Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 7:22 ` [patch 3/3] fs: fix cont vs deadlock patches Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 11:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 22:14 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-01 0:27 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 1:11 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-01 2:03 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 2:09 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 3:41 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-01 3:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 5:08 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 7:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01 7:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-01 14:50 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-01 15:47 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-02 0:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-02 7:28 ` [new patch " Nick Piggin
2006-12-02 9:43 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-11-30 7:26 ` [patch 0/3] more buffered write fixes Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 10:15 ` [patch 1/3] mm: pagecache write deadlocks zerolength fix Andreas Schwab
2006-11-30 10:19 ` Nick Piggin
2006-11-30 10:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-11-30 11:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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