On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 01:28:29AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 17-05-12 17:43:08, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:04:45PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Wed 16-05-12 12:14:23, Dave Chinner wrote: > > IIRC, it's a rare case (that I consider insane, BTW): read from a > > file with into a buffer that is a mmap()d region of the same file > > that has not been faulted in yet..... > With punch hole, the race is less insane - just punching hole in the area > which is accessed via mmap could race in a bad way AFAICS. Seems the simple answer to me is to prevent page faults while hole punching, then.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html