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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: spinlock contention of files->file_lock
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 23:04:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131001220453.GY13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380663718.19002.49.camel@edumazet-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:41:58PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something obvious ?

Yes.  do_execve_common() starts with unshare_files(); there can be
no other thread capable of modifying that descriptor table.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-01 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-30 19:29 Avoiding the dentry d_lock on final dput(), part deux: transactional memory Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 20:01 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-30 20:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-02 14:56     ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 22:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-01  0:36   ` Michael Neuling
2013-10-01  0:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-01  2:05       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-10-01  3:13         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-01  4:52           ` Michael Neuling
2013-10-01 12:16             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-01 13:42               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-01  1:05 ` spinlock contention of files->file_lock Eric Dumazet
2013-10-01  1:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-01  2:18     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-01 21:41     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-01 22:04       ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-10-01 22:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-02  5:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02 10:20           ` Al Viro
2013-10-02 10:56             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01  1:53   ` Al Viro
2013-10-01  2:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-01  3:27       ` Al Viro
2013-10-01  3:36         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-01  5:12           ` Eric Dumazet

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