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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	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: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:08:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915220819.GF15426@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915220016.GC9106@holomorphy.com>

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:00:16PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 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.

block_truncate_page is unrelated with this issue, it's called on the
_new_ partial page generated by truncate, not on the _old_ partial page
that is being extended to be a _full_ page (with garbage inside between
the old_i_size and PAGE_ALIGN(old_i_size)).

(again s/page/softblock/)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 22:13 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
2004-09-15 22:08       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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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