From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC] madvise(MADV_TRUNCATE) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:38:51 +0200 References: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510271038.52277.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, Jeff Dike , dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm List-ID: On Thursday 27 October 2005 00:49, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > I would really appreciate your comments on my approach. (from a high level point of view) It sounds very scary. Traditionally a lot of code had special case handling to avoid truncate races, and it might need a lot of auditing to make sure everybode else can handle arbitary punch hole too. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org