Re: [PATCH v2] intelrdt: resctrl: recommend locking for resctrlfs

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> There is a locking problem between different applications
> reading/writing to resctrlfs directory at the same time (read the patch
> below for details).
> 
> Suggest a standard locking scheme for applications to use.

....

> +To coordinate atomic operations on resctrl and avoid the problem
> +above, the following locking procedure is recommended:
> +
> +A) open /var/lock/resctrl/fs.lock with O_CREAT|O_EXCL.
> +B) if success, write pid of program accessing the directory
> +   structure to this file.
> +C) read/write the directory structure.
> +D) remove file.

What's wrong with using flock, which works from shell scripts as well?

Thanks,

	tglx