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Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL

To: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:29:11 +0000
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs-masters@xxxxxxxxxxx, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:15:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > What speaks against having on in fs_struct so that it's at least not
> > globally serialized?
> 
> That would not handle fds passed between processes?

Doesn't need to be passed; just inherited from common ancestor...

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