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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	npiggin@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] VFS : mount lock scalability for files systems without mount point   (WAS vfsmount lock issues on very large ppc64 box)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:40:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721204042.GB31405@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311093158.2707.75.camel@schen9-DESK>

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:32:38AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> @@ -1193,6 +1193,7 @@ static void __exit cleanup_mtdchar(void)
>  {
>  	unregister_mtd_user(&mtdchar_notifier);
>  	mntput(mtd_inode_mnt);
> +	kern_unmount(mtd_inode_mnt);

Surely you want to merge that mntput() in there...

> +void kern_unmount(struct vfsmount *mnt)
> +{
> +	/* release long term mount so mount point can be released */
> +	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mnt)) {
> +		mnt_make_shortterm(mnt);
> +		mntput();
> +	}
> +}

... and if you pass it the argument, it'll be much happier.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-17  0:50 vfsmount lock issues on very large ppc64 box Anton Blanchard
2011-07-17  1:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-07-17  8:46   ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-18  8:17     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-18 15:40       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-18 15:51         ` Al Viro
2011-07-19 16:32           ` [Patch] VFS : mount lock scalability for files systems without mount point (WAS vfsmount lock issues on very large ppc64 box) Tim Chen
2011-07-21 20:40             ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-07-22  0:27               ` Tim Chen
2011-07-23 13:24                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-25 22:39                   ` Tim Chen
2011-07-25 22:51                     ` Al Viro
2011-07-25 23:22                       ` Tim Chen
2011-07-26  6:00                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-26  8:21                           ` [PATCH] vfs: dont chain pipe/anon/socket on superblock s_inodes list Eric Dumazet
2011-07-26  9:03                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26  9:36                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-26  9:42                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 10:43                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-07-26 11:49                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-27 15:21                                 ` [PATCH] vfs: avoid taking locks if inode not in lists Eric Dumazet
2011-07-27 17:12                                   ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 20:44                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-27 20:59                                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-27 21:01                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-28  4:11                                         ` [PATCH] vfs: conditionally call inode_wb_list_del() Eric Dumazet
2011-07-28  4:41                                     ` [PATCH] vfs: avoid taking locks if inode not in lists Eric Dumazet
2011-07-28  4:55                                     ` [PATCH] vfs: avoid call to inode_lru_list_del() if possible Eric Dumazet
2011-07-18 16:41   ` vfsmount lock issues on very large ppc64 box Tim Chen

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