On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ben Myers <b...@sgi.com> wrote:
>>
>> We're still talking at cross purposes then.
>>
>> How the hell do you handle mmap() and page faulting?
>
> __xfs_get_blocks serializes access to the block map with the i_lock on the
> xfs_inode. This appears to be racy with respect to hole punching.
Would it be possible to just make __xfs_get_blocks get the i_iolock
(non-exclusively)?
Or, alternatively, do it in the readpage() function?
That was what I thought you did anyway. Exactly because of the whole
page faulting issue.
Linus
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