linux-kernel - Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:15:15 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

On Thu 10-04-08 18:03:35, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:09 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> escribió:
> 
> > I think this is worth fixing.
> 
> This question comes very often, and Linus even wrote a patch
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/124 , http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/13/130)
> 
> But apparently there's no much interest in fixing it, because it would
> slow down some workloads...
  Well, what Linus writes about is a different issue (and with a more
costly solution). Here we are concerned just with the problem that
  file->f_pos = pos;
isn't atomic on some archs.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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