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We want to protect concurrent updates of ovl inode size and mtime (i.e. ovl_copyattr()) from aio completion context. Punt write aio completion to a workqueue so that we can protect ovl_copyattr() with a spinlock. Export sb_init_dio_done_wq(), so that overlayfs can use its own dio workqueue to punt aio completions. Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8620dfd3-372d-4ae0-aa3f-2fe97dda1bca@kernel.dk/ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
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.