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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 02:29:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120607012900.GE30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607011915.GA17566@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:19:15PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>  > So Al meant you to test mutex_is_locked(dentry->d_inode->i_mutex) of
>  > the parents.
> 
> ok, I ended up with..
> 
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(!mutex_is_locked(&target->d_parent->d_inode->i_mutex));
> 
>         if (dentry->d_parent != NULL)
			       != dentry)

->d_parent *never* should be NULL; when dentry is disconnected from the
tree (or hadn't been connected to it yet), it points to that dentry itself.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-07  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-03 22:36 processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes Dave Jones
2012-06-03 22:51 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-03 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-03 23:17   ` Al Viro
2012-06-03 23:28     ` Al Viro
2012-06-03 23:40       ` Al Viro
2012-06-03 23:59         ` Al Viro
2012-06-04  0:07       ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 19:42       ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 22:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-06 23:00           ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 23:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-06 23:54               ` Al Viro
2012-06-07  0:29                 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07  0:40                   ` Al Viro
2012-06-07  0:42                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07  1:19                     ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07  1:29                       ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-06-07  1:31                         ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07  1:31                         ` Al Viro
2012-06-07  1:42                           ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07  1:45                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07  1:54                             ` Al Viro
2012-06-07  2:08                               ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 19:36                         ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 20:43                           ` Sage Weil
2012-06-07 23:12                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-07 23:39                             ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 23:57                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  0:36                               ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  0:42                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  0:59                                 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  5:25                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08  5:48                                     ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  7:54                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08 20:20                                         ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  2:08                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08  2:37                                   ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  2:18                           ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 16:22                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-08 17:44                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-11 12:17                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-07  1:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07  0:35                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07 10:26               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 15:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  7:31                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:38                     ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 14:51                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 15:01                         ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 15:11                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 15:21                             ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 14:46                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-08 15:08                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-11 12:17                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-04  0:00   ` Dave Jones
2012-06-04  0:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-04  0:20       ` Al Viro
2012-06-04  9:35         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-04  9:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-04 10:49         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07  0:13           ` Dave Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-07  7:07 Miklos Szeredi
2012-06-07 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-11 16:02   ` Miklos Szeredi

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