From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: ak@suse.de
Cc: taka@valinux.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:39:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020412.143934.33012005.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020412143559.A25386@wotan.suse.de>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:35:59 +0200
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:30:11PM +0900, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote:
> I analysis this situation, read systemcall doesn't lock anything
> -- no page lock, no semaphore lock -- while someone truncates
> files partially.
> It will often happens in case of pagefault in copy_user() to
> copy file data to user space.
I don't see it as a big problem and would just leave it as it is
(for NFS and local)
I agree with Andi. You can basically throw away my whole argument
about this. Applications that require synchonization between the
writer of file contents and reader of file contents must do some
kind of locking amongst themselves at user level.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-12 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020410.190550.83626375.taka@valinux.co.jp.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-10 19:32 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Andi Kleen
2002-04-11 2:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 6:46 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 6:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 7:41 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 7:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 11:38 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-11 11:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-11 18:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 13:16 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-11 17:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-16 0:17 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-16 15:37 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-11 17:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-12 8:10 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:30 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-12 12:35 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-12 21:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-12 21:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-13 0:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-13 6:39 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-13 8:01 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-13 19:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-13 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-13 20:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-24 23:11 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-25 17:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-13 18:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14 0:07 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-14 8:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-14 8:40 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-12 21:39 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-04-15 1:30 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-15 4:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-16 1:03 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-16 1:41 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-16 2:20 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18 5:01 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-18 7:58 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-04-18 8:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-19 3:21 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-19 9:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-04-20 7:47 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-25 12:37 ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR. Was " Terje Eggestad
2002-04-26 2:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-26 7:38 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 0:41 ` Possible bug with UDP and SO_REUSEADDR David Schwartz
2002-04-29 8:06 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 8:44 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 10:03 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-04-29 10:38 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-29 14:20 ` Terje Eggestad
[not found] ` <200204192128.QAA24592@popmail.austin.ibm.com>
2002-04-20 10:14 ` [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated Hirokazu Takahashi
2002-04-20 15:49 ` Andrew Theurer
2002-04-10 10:05 Hirokazu Takahashi
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