On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 10:24:50PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 02:10:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I *do* think that we could perhaps extend (and rename) the > > inode->i_size_seqcount to just cover all of the core inode metadata > > stuff. > > That would bring ->i_size_seqcount to 64bit architectures and > potentially extend the time it's being held quite a bit even > on 32bit... Could we just do: again: nsec = READ_ONCE(inode->nsec) sec = READ_ONCE(inode->sec) if (READ_ONCE(inode->nsec) != nsec) goto again; ?
