Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2014 15:18:13 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | OFD locks and deadlock detection |
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Hi Jeff,
I just happened to notice :
commit 57b65325fe34ec4c917bc4e555144b4a94d9e1f7 Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Date: Mon Feb 3 12:13:09 2014 -0500
locks: skip deadlock detection on FL_FILE_PVT locks
And then this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/81318/focus=81327 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton <at> redhat.com> Subject: [PATCH v5 13/14] locks: skip deadlock detection on FL_FILE_PVT locks Date: 2014-01-09 14:19:46 GMT
I think it's pretty important to document that. All implementations of traditional process-associated (.k.a. "POSIX") locks that I've ever come across do detect deadlocks, so it's important to note that OFD locks do not.
I plan to add the following text to the fcntl(2) page:
[[ In the current implementation, no deadlock detection is performed for open file description locks. (This contrasts with process-associated record locks, for which the kernel does perform deadlock detection.) ]]
Okay?
cheers,
Michael
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