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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28?] don't unlink an active swapfile
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:02:26 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811141758260.29362@blonde.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114173422.GA22868@infradead.org>

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:37:22AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Peter Cordes is sorry that he rm'ed his swapfiles while they were in use,
> > he then had no pathname to swapoff.  It's a curious little oversight, but
> > not one worth a lot of hackery.  Kudos to Willy Tarreau for turning this
> > around from a discussion of synthetic pathnames to how to prevent unlink.
> > Mimic immutable: prohibit unlinking an active swapfile in may_delete()
> > (and don't worry my little head over the tiny race window).
> 
> Looks good (but I think I already said this before)

Thanks.  Indeed you did.  I wondered whether to add an Acked-by in
your name, but I think different people have understandably different
positions on the etiquette of translating "Looks good" into "Acked-by";
so not knowing your position, I just Cc'ed you again.

Hugh

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bnlDw-5vQ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <bnwpg-2EA-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <bnJFK-3bu-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-16 23:43     ` no way to swapoff a deleted swap file? Bodo Eggert
2008-10-16 23:43     ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found]     ` <bnR0A-4kq-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-17  8:20       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-17  8:20       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-17 12:17         ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-17 12:36           ` David Newall
2008-10-17 22:42           ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-18  0:31           ` Peter Cordes
2008-10-18  5:18             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-18 20:45               ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-18 20:49                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-18 20:56                   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-11-14  2:37                     ` [PATCH 2.6.28?] don't unlink an active swapfile Hugh Dickins
2008-11-14  4:08                       ` Peter Cordes
2008-11-14 17:34                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-14 18:02                         ` Hugh Dickins [this message]

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