Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

[Nick Piggin]

Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Thursday 11 January 2007 04:00, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > That's racy, unfortunately :P
>
>
> Sorry, please, explain what is racy.
> reiserfs_truncate and reiserfs_release call that function after they have inode's mutex locked.

Calling truncate inside i_size (ie. vmtruncate_range is also racy), because
of the way that the pagefault side of the equation works (eg. truncate_count).

But if you're only calling truncate on files that are never mmapped, then I
think that race should disappear.

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