Re: [FYI] tux3: Core changes
From: David Lang
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 23:52:18 EST
On Wed, 20 May 2015, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On 05/20/2015 03:51 PM, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On 05/20/2015 12:53 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
How does tux3 prevent a user of find_get_page() from reading from
or writing into the pre-COW page, instead of the current page?
Careful control of the dirty bits (we have two of them, one each
for front and back). That is what pagefork_for_blockdirty is about.
Ah, and of course it does not matter if a reader is on the
pre-cow page. It would be reading the earlier copy, which might
no longer be the current copy, but it raced with the write so
nobody should be surprised. That is a race even without page fork.
how do you prevent it from continuing to interact with the old version of the
page and never see updates or have it's changes reflected on the current page?
David Lang
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