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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.


On Fri, 4 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Ehh... There _is_ a way to deal with that, but it's deeply Albertesque:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > * add pagecache access for block device
> > * put your "real" root on /dev/loop0 (setup from initrd)
> > * dd
>
> You're one sick puppy.

[snip]
/me bows

Nice to see that imitation was good enough ;-) Seriously, I half-expected
Albert to show up at that point of thread and tried to anticipate what
he'd produce.

ObProcfs: I don't think that walking the page tables is a good way to
compute RSS, especially since VM maintains the thing. Mind if I rip
it out? In effect, implementation of /prc/<pid>/statm
* produces extremely bogus values (VMA is from library if it goes
beyond 0x60000000? Might be even true 7 years ago...) and nobody
had cared about them for 6-7 years
* makes stuff like top(1) _walk_ _whole_ _page_ _tables_ _of_ _all_
_processes_ each 5 seconds. No wonder it's slow like hell and eats
tons of CPU time.

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