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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:43:13 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 2/3] add statmnt(2) syscall
From: Jeff Layton
> Sent: 18 September 2023 15:30
....
> A bit tangential to this discussion, but one thing we could consider is
> adding something like a mnt_change_cookie field that increments on any
> significant changes on the mount: i.e. remounts with new options,
> changes to parentage or propagation, etc.
>
> That might make it more palatable to do something with separate syscalls
> for the string-based fields. You could do:
>
> statmnt(...);
> getmntattr(mnt, "mnt.fstype", ...);
> statmnt(...);
>
> ...and then if the mnt_change_cookie hasn't changed, you know that the
> string option was stable during that window.
That would also help with the problem of the mount options
being changed while processing a page fault on the user buffer.
Of, with a call to just get the cookie, could find that nothing
has changed so there is no point looking again.
David
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