Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752535Ab2KRA6K (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:58:10 -0500 Received: from mail-da0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:48608 "EHLO mail-da0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752496Ab2KRA6I (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:58:08 -0500 Message-ID: <50A83289.6020108@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:57:45 +0800 From: Jaegeuk Hanse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Dickins CC: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp VM_BUG_ON References: <20121025023738.GA27001@redhat.com> <20121101191052.GA5884@redhat.com> <20121101232030.GA25519@redhat.com> <20121102014336.GA1727@redhat.com> <20121106135402.GA3543@redhat.com> <50A30ADD.9000209@gmail.com> <50A49C46.9040406@gmail.com> <50A6089B.7010708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2418 Lines: 53 On 11/17/2012 12:48 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Further offtopic.. Thanks for your explanation, Hugh. :-) > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Jaegeuk Hanse wrote: >> Some questions about your shmem/tmpfs: misc and fallocate patchset. >> >> - Since shmem_setattr can truncate tmpfs files, why need add another similar >> codes in function shmem_fallocate? What's the trick? > I don't know if I understand you. In general, hole-punching is different > from truncation. Supporting the hole-punch mode of the fallocate system > call is different from supporting truncation. They're closely related, > and share code, but meet different specifications. What's the different between shmem/tmpfs hole-punching and truncate_setsize/truncate_pagecache? Do you mean one is punch hole in the file and the other one is shrink or extent the size of a file? >> - in tmpfs: support fallocate preallocation patch changelog: >> "Christoph Hellwig: What for exactly? Please explain why preallocating on >> tmpfs would make any sense. >> Kay Sievers: To be able to safely use mmap(), regarding SIGBUS, on files on >> the /dev/shm filesystem. The glibc fallback loop for -ENOSYS [or >> -EOPNOTSUPP] on fallocate is just ugly." >> Could shmem/tmpfs fallocate prevent one process truncate the file which the >> second process mmap() and get SIGBUS when the second process access mmap but >> out of current size of file? > Again, I don't know if I understand you. fallocate does not prevent > truncation or races or SIGBUS. I believe that Kay meant that without > using fallocate to allocate the memory in advance, systemd found it hard > to protect itself from the possibility of getting a SIGBUS, if access to > a shmem mapping happened to run out of memory/space in the middle. IIUC, it will return VM_xxx_OOM instead of SIGBUS if run out of memory. Then how can get SIGBUS in this scene? Regards, Jaegeuk > I never grasped why writing the file in advance was not good enough: > fallocate happened to be what they hoped to use, and it was hard to > deny it, given that tmpfs already supported hole-punching, and was > about to convert to the fallocate interface for that. > Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/