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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Wayne Scott <wscott@bitmover.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, elenstev@mesatop.com,
	lm@bitmover.com, wli@holomorphy.com, hugh@veritas.com,
	adi@bitmover.com, scole@lanl.gov, support@bitmover.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:17:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517151738.GA4730@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040517.085640.30175416.wscott@bitmover.com>

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:56:40AM -0500, Wayne Scott wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> > Well we can stop right there, because the only way someone can get some
> > more non-zero user data into this page before we memset and write it is by
> > locking the page beforehand, and block_write_full_page() has the page lock.
> > (Or they can write stuff into it via mmap, but writing to the page outside
> > i_size is an application bug).
> 
> BTW: BitKeeper never opens a writable mmap to a file.  The files are
> read with mmap() and written by fwriting to a tmp file and then
> renaming over the target.  And since we run on Windows, no process has
> the file open when we are updating it.

Note though that the stdio library uses a writeable mmap to implement
fwrite.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-17 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6616858C-A5AF-11D8-A7EA-000A95CC3A8A@lanl.gov>
     [not found] ` <200405122234.06902.elenstev@mesatop.com>
     [not found]   ` <15594C37-A509-11D8-A7EA-000A95CC3A8A@lanl.gov>
     [not found]     ` <20040513183316.GE17965@bitmover.com>
2004-05-14  4:32       ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? Steven Cole
     [not found]         ` <20040514144617.GE20197@work.bitmover.com>
     [not found]           ` <200405131723.15752.elenstev@mesatop.com>
2004-05-14 16:53             ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) Andy Isaacson
2004-05-14 17:23               ` Steven Cole
2004-05-15  0:54               ` Steven Cole
2004-05-15  1:55                 ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? Wayne Scott
2004-05-15  3:15               ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) Lincoln Dale
2004-05-15  3:41                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-15  5:39                   ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16  1:23                   ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16  2:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16  3:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16  4:31                         ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16  4:52                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16  5:22                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-16 15:28                               ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16 17:49                                 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2004-05-16 20:38                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-16 21:19                                   ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16 21:29                                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 22:11                                       ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16 23:53                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-17  2:12                                           ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17  8:21                                         ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-05-16  5:54                             ` Steven Cole
2004-05-16  6:09                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16  6:24                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 10:01                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16 13:49                             ` Steven Cole
2004-05-18  1:47                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-16  3:20                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-16  3:58                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17  2:28                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17  2:42                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17  3:36                         ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17  5:17                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17  6:11                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 13:56                               ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? Wayne Scott
2004-05-17 15:17                                 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2004-05-17 15:20                                   ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 15:22                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17 15:25                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 15:37                                     ` viro
2004-05-17 17:30                                       ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 17:40                                         ` viro
2004-05-17 17:39                                           ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 19:06                                             ` viro
2004-05-17 15:40                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-17 15:53                                       ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 16:23                                   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-17 16:28                                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-17 14:07                               ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 14:12                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17  7:25                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17  7:46                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17  8:39                                 ` Vladimir Saveliev
2004-05-17  8:44                                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 11:58                                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 14:05                               ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 14:14                             ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 14:32                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17 14:52                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 15:02                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-17 15:05                                     ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-17 15:23                                     ` Chris Mason
2004-05-17 15:49                                       ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 20:24                                       ` Chris Mason
2004-05-17 21:08                                         ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 21:29                                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 22:15                                             ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 23:52                                             ` Steven Cole
2004-05-18  0:03                                               ` Chris Mason
2004-05-18  0:15                                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18  0:13                                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18  0:45                                                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-18  1:34                                                 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-18  1:42                                                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18  1:56                                                     ` Steven Cole
2004-05-17 14:11                         ` Larry McVoy
     [not found]         ` <200405172142.52780.elenstev@mesatop.com>
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405172056480.25502@ppc970.osdl.org>
     [not found]             ` <200405172319.38853.elenstev@mesatop.com>
2004-05-18 12:42               ` Chris Mason
2004-05-18 14:29                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-18 14:38               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-19 10:53                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-19 12:10                   ` Chris Mason
2004-05-19 12:20                     ` 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? Wayne Scott
2004-05-19 12:42                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-19 13:28                         ` Steven Cole
2004-05-19 13:36                           ` Chris Mason
2004-05-19 13:59                             ` Steven Cole
2004-05-19 14:03                               ` Wayne Scott
2004-05-19 14:08                               ` Chris Mason
2004-05-19 14:20                                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-19 14:45                                 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-19 21:11                                 ` Non-regression for current kernel (was Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page?) Steven Cole
2004-05-13 19:08 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? Andy Isaacson
2004-05-14  2:22 ` Andrew Morton

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