From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] sysfs: use check_submounts_and_drop() Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:17:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20130904151708.GA28775@kroah.com> References: <1378303556-7220-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <1378303556-7220-8-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rwheeler@redhat.com, avati@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, bfoster@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, eparis@redhat.com, raven@themaw.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@suse.cz To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1378303556-7220-8-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:05:53PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi > > Do have_submounts(), shrink_dcache_parent() and d_drop() atomically. > > check_submounts_and_drop() can deal with negative dentries and > non-directories as well. > > Non-directories can also be mounted on. And just like directories we don't > want these to disappear with invalidation. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman