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From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>,
	"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: namei.c LOOKUP_NONBLOCK (was "Re: [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.10-rc")
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:55:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wicKF87YsiQpdK0B26Mk3UhRNrBEcOv7h=ohFKLjRM4DQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Here's a potentially better attempt - basically we allow LOOKUP_NONBLOCK
> with LOOKUP_RCU, and if we end up dropping LOOKUP_RCU, then we generally
> return -EAGAIN if LOOKUP_NONBLOCK is set as we can no longer guarantee
> that we won't block.

Looks sane to me.

I don't love the "__unlazy_walk vs unlazy_walk" naming - I think it
needs to be more clear about what the difference is, but I think the
basic patch looks sane, and looks about as big as I would have
expected it to be.

But yes, I'll leave it to Al.

And if we do this - and I think we should - I'd also love to see a new
flag in 'struct open_how' to openat2(), even if it's only to enable
tests. RESOLVE_NONBLOCK?

               Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20 18:45 [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.10-rc Jens Axboe
2020-11-20 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-20 21:36   ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-21  0:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-21  2:41       ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-21  3:00         ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-21 18:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-21 22:58             ` Jens Axboe
2020-12-10 17:32               ` namei.c LOOKUP_NONBLOCK (was "Re: [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.10-rc") Jens Axboe
2020-12-10 18:55                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-12-10 19:21                   ` Jens Axboe
2020-11-21  0:29 ` [GIT PULL] io_uring fixes for 5.10-rc pr-tracker-bot

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