linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop devicethrough mmap

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:01:30 +1100 (EST)
From:	Kandan Venkataraman <kven709@....unsw.EDU.AU>
To:	Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop 
 devicethrough mmap


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jari Ruusu wrote:

> Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
>> All comments have been taken care of.
>
> Your patch still does not do conversions of existing user space visible
> 'struct loop_info64' which is pretty much cast in stone. Blindly overwriting
> larger structure over smaller user space buffer of existing userspace
> binaries is the wrong way to do this.

Which of the two options below would be the best way 
to get around this problem.

i)A new ioctl call to set/unset lo_track_pgwrite.

ii) Create 'struct loop_info64_v2' with 
lo_track_pgwrite in it and two new ioctls LOOP_SET_STATUS64_V2
and LOOP_GET_STATUS64_V2.

Either way 'struct loop_info64' would be left untouched.

Please comment.





>
> There was a time when folks at least pretended that breaking user space ABI
> was not tolerable.
>
> -- 
> Jari Ruusu  1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD
>
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