From: Nick Piggin dentry referenced bit is only set when installing the dentry back onto the LRU. However with lazy LRU, the dentry can already be on the LRU list at dput time, thus missing out on setting the referenced bit. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c 2010-10-09 10:26:11.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c 2010-10-09 10:29:04.611003707 +0200 @@ -246,13 +246,16 @@ repeat: if (dentry->d_op->d_delete(dentry)) goto unhash_it; } + /* Unreachable? Get rid of it */ if (d_unhashed(dentry)) goto kill_it; - if (list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) { - dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED; + + /* Otherwise leave it cached and ensure it's on the LRU */ + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED; + if (list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) dentry_lru_add(dentry); - } + spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); return;