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While trawling through the dedupe file comparison code trying to fix page deadlocking problems, Dave Chinner noticed that the reflink code only takes shared IOLOCK/MMAPLOCKs on the source file. Because page_mkwrite and directio writes do not take the EXCL versions of those locks, this means that reflink can race with writer processes. For pure remapping this can lead to undefined behavior and file corruption; for dedupe this means that we cannot be sure that the contents are identical when we decide to go ahead with the remapping. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.