Re: truncate shows non zero data beyond the end of the inode with MAP_SHARED

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 17:09:49 EST


William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Zeroing the final partial page during expanding truncate (flushing TLB)
>> sounds like a reasonable half measure; we don't do anything at the moment.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sure about that? block_truncate_page() gets called.

So it does; then the hard parts are what's biting aa.


-- wli
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