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From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] fs: mntput might sleep
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:12:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100318011222.GB24348@shell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100317132820.GH2869@laptop>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:28:20AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I missed this once or twice, so can we put might_sleep check into
> mntput?  Or does anyone call it from atomic context to drop a known
> not-last reference? (if so then maybe the caller could be rewritten).
> --
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mount.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mount.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mount.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ extern int __mnt_is_readonly(struct vfsm
>  static inline void mntput(struct vfsmount *mnt)
>  {
>  	if (mnt) {
> +		might_sleep();
> +
>  		mnt->mnt_expiry_mark = 0;
>  		mntput_no_expire(mnt);
>  	}

None of my union mount tests trigger it, fine by me. :)

-VAL

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17 13:28 [rfc][patch] fs: mntput might sleep Nick Piggin
2010-03-18  1:12 ` Valerie Aurora [this message]
2010-03-18 19:03 ` Al Viro

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