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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/39] vfs: add f_op->pre_mmap()
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:43:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is needed by overlayfs to be able to copy up a file from a read-only
> lower layer to a writable layer when being mapped shared. When copying up,
> overlayfs takes VFS locks that would violate locking order when nested
> inside mmap_sem.
>
> Add a new f_op->pre_mmap method, which is called before taking mmap_sem.

NAK. We really should not add multiple methods for mmap, and everytime
this came up we found a better way to solve the problem instead. Most
recent example was the socket zero copy receive code.

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