linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] intelrdt: resctrl: recommend locking for resctrlfs

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611302209411.3619@nanos>
Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:10:23 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
cc:     "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intelrdt: resctrl: recommend locking for resctrlfs 

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> There is a locking problem between different applications
> reading/writing to resctrlfs directory at the same time (read the patch
> below for details).
> 
> Suggest a standard locking scheme for applications to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
> 
> --- Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt.orig	2016-11-30 13:40:33.080233101 -0200
> +++ Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt	2016-11-30 13:45:01.253703259 -0200

I can't remember that we changed the -p1 patch format to -p0 :(