From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LART] inode mismanagement in hugetlb code
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:19:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021010191954.GS10722@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210101447390.13421-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> a) inodes MUST have an address of valid struct super_block in their
> ->i_sb. Had been discussed quite a few times already.
> b) inodes MUST NOT be allocated by code that isn't called from
> alloc_inode().
> c) inodes SHOULD NOT be kept around for noticable intervals without
> a dentry pointing to them.
> d) people who choose variable names like htlbpagek SHOULD be sent to
> produce a street map of R'Lyeh. On site.
A wee bit of neurosurgery is in progress to repair (a) and (b) since
they're taking out my boxen dead cold and reliably on the first or
second invocation with Paul Larson's tests. (c) is very unclean, and
(d) I wholeheartedly agree with (and am amused by the wording of too =).
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-10 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-10 19:00 [LART] inode mismanagement in hugetlb code Alexander Viro
2002-10-10 19:19 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-10-10 19:22 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 19:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20021010191954.GS10722@holomorphy.com \
--to=wli@holomorphy.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=viro@math.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox