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Subject: Re: FW: oops in 2.4.25 prune_icache() called from kswapd
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:33:03 -0300
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:03:38PM -0500, Srivastava, Rahul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks a lot. The second race mentioned below explains it all.
> 
> Now I understood the significance of adding I_CLEAR. I actually never
> noticed that I_CLEAR flag is directly assigned to i_state. Since this
> will clear up the I_FREEING flag, the addition of I_CLEAR in
> __refile_inodes() does make sense. 

Right - I also missed the clearing of the I_FREEING flag.

Thanks!