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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: andrea@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, an.li.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: truncate shows non zero data beyond the end of the inode with MAP_SHARED
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:00:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915220016.GC9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915145524.079a8694.akpm@osdl.org>

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> Zeroing the final partial page during expanding truncate (flushing TLB)
>> sounds like a reasonable half measure; we don't do anything at the moment.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sure about that?  block_truncate_page() gets called.

So it does; then the hard parts are what's biting aa.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-15 12:29 truncate shows non zero data beyond the end of the inode with MAP_SHARED Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 21:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-15 21:55   ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 22:00     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-15 22:08       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-16  8:49         ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-16 14:26           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:49             ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-17 13:52               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:54               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-15 22:04     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 21:58   ` Andrea Arcangeli

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