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SubjectRe: [PATCH] AFS: Implement shared-writable mmap [try #2]
David Howells wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>You can drop the lock, do the invalidation,
>
>
> Hmmm... There's a danger of incurring a race by doing that. Consider two
> processes both trying to write to a dirty page for which writeback will be
> rejected:
>
> (1) The first process gets EKEYREJECTED from the server, drops its lock and
> is then preempted.
>
> (2) The second process gets EKEYREJECTED from the server, drops its lock,
> truncates the page, reloads the page and modifies it.
>
> (3) The first process resumes and truncates the page, thereby splatting the
> second process's write.
>
> Or:
>
> (1) The first process gets EKEYREJECTED from the server, clears the writeback
> information from the page, drops its lock and is then preempted.
>
> (2) The second process attaches its own writeback information to the page and
> modifies it.
>
> (3) The first process resumes and truncates the page, thereby splatting the
> second process's write.

If there are race issues involving concurrent invalidations, then you'd
fix that up by taking a filesystem specific lock to prevent them.

Generic write path should be holding i_mutex, but I don't think you can
take that from page_mkwrite... Just add one of your own.


> Really, what I want to do is pass the page lock to truncate to deal with.
> Better still, I want truncate to be selective, based on whether or not a page
> is still associated with the rejected writeback. I wonder if I should call
> truncate_complete_page() or invalidate_complete_page() directly.

No, you shouldn't. We could theoretically introduce a new API for this,
but I think it would be preferable if you can fix the race in the fs.

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