From: Al Viro <viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven-PKsaG3nR2I+sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust
<Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:10:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224191012.GC22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298542053.3058.56.camel@perseus>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:07:33PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> Yes, that's a problem.
>
> Previously the dcache_lock would have blocked on the dput() ... mmm, I'd
> missed that so far, although Nick didn't talk with me about his changes
> very much at all and I didn't pay enough attention to his patch series
> along the way, oops!
Actually, dcache_lock blocks only the _final_ dput(). I.e. one that has
refcount going to 0. Not the case here, so that's a problem without
RCU stuff as well.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-18 4:05 [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount Ian Kent
2011-01-18 4:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] autofs4 - fix get_next_positive_dentry() Ian Kent
2011-01-18 4:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] vfs - fix dentry ref count in do_lookup() Ian Kent
2011-01-18 4:44 ` Al Viro
2011-01-18 4:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] autofs4 - fix debug print in autofs4_lookup() Ian Kent
2011-01-19 7:06 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount Ian Kent
2011-02-15 14:25 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-23 7:22 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-23 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-24 1:58 ` Al Viro
2011-02-24 3:03 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-24 3:14 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <20110224031439.GR22723-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2011-02-24 3:28 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-24 3:58 ` Al Viro
2011-02-24 5:47 ` Al Viro
2011-02-24 7:23 ` Ian Kent
[not found] ` <20110224035836.GS22723-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2011-02-24 6:34 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-24 7:07 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <20110224070724.GW22723-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2011-02-24 10:07 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-24 14:59 ` Al Viro
2011-02-24 15:18 ` Al Viro
2011-02-25 3:07 ` Ian Kent
2011-02-24 19:10 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-02-24 10:21 ` Ian Kent
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