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From: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ceph: take a reference to the dentry in d_find_any_alias()
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:34:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325169278.1131.65.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111229091108.GB5257@infradead.org>

On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 04:11 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 06:05:14PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote:
> > From: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
> > 
> > The ceph code duplicates __d_find_any_alias(), but it currently
> > does not take a reference to the returned dentry as it should.
> > Replace the ceph implementation with an exact copy of what's
> > found in "fs/dcache.c", and update the callers so they drop
> > their reference when they're done with it.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this requires the wholesale copy of the functions
> > that implement __dget().  It would be much nicer to just export
> > d_find_any_alias() from "fs/dcache.c" instead.
> 
> Just exporting it would indeed be much better.

Yes, that's the plan.  We were originally hoping to get
this into 3.2 and I figured it was too late in the cycle
to be suggesting a (albeit pretty harmless) change to
the dcache code.

I will respin the patches.  I'll wait an hour or two
to see what Sage plans to do with these.

					-Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-29 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-29  2:05 [PATCH 0/3] Ceph fixes for 3.2 final Sage Weil
2011-12-29  2:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] ceph: take inode lock when finding an inode alias Sage Weil
2011-12-29  9:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-29  2:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] ceph: take a reference to the dentry in d_find_any_alias() Sage Weil
2011-12-29  9:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-29 14:34     ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-12-29 14:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-29  2:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount option Sage Weil
2011-12-29  9:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-22 20:13 [PATCH 1/3] ceph: take inode lock when finding an inode alias Sage Weil
2011-12-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] ceph: take a reference to the dentry in d_find_any_alias() Sage Weil

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