Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace.

Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17T16:03:18Z

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> But When i say "stale data" I mean that the data being returned
> might not have originally belonged to the underlying file you are
> reading.

We're still talking at cross purposes then.

How the hell do you handle mmap() and page faulting?

Because if you return *that* kind of stale data, than you're horribly
horribly buggy. And you cannot *possibly* blame
generic_file_splice_read() on that.

Linus