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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:20:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141024022055.GH7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141023232539.GA4662@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:25:39AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> Please pull
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs.v25
> 
> Plenty of bugs fixed relative to the previous version, thanks to Al Viro's
> review and is now officially be BugFree(TM).  Also passes the
> unionmount-testsuite by David Howells.

*blink*

Why the hell do you hold ->i_mutex across the entire opening of underlying
directory?  All you need is to serialize one assignment; the side that loses
the race will simply fput() what it opened...

Oh, well - that goes under "weird pessimisations, easy to fix in followups"...

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 23:25 [GIT PULL] overlay filesystem v25 Miklos Szeredi
2014-10-24  2:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-10-24  3:24   ` Al Viro
2014-10-24  7:24     ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-10-25  8:18       ` Al Viro
2014-10-25  9:53         ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-10-25 17:06           ` Al Viro
2014-10-27  8:06             ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-10-27 15:59               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-27 17:28                 ` Al Viro
2014-10-27 17:36                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-28  1:12                     ` Al Viro
2014-10-28  4:11                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-28 22:55                         ` Al Viro
2014-10-28 23:25                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-24  7:28     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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