On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Brent Casavant wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > > @@ -1607,15 +1582,17 @@ static int shmem_statfs(struct super_blo
> > > - if (sbinfo) {
> > > - spin_lock(&sbinfo->stat_lock);
> > > + spin_lock(&sbinfo->stat_lock);
> ...
> >
> > This is the only change I'm at all concerned about.
>
> Thanks for noticing, I hadn't really considered that.
>
> > I'm not sure how frequent statfs operations occur in practice (I suspect
> > infrequently),
>
> Infrequently, yes. I think infrequently to the point of never in
> the case that concerns you: correct if I'm wrong, someone, but I think
> there's actually no handle by which user can statfs shm's internal mount.
Ah, that's an even better point, which I had failed to consider. Consider
my concerns duly nullified. :)
Thanks for CC'ing me on the change.
Brent
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