From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache shrink list corruption?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:48:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140429214842.GL18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140429211851.GA32204@dastard>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:18:51AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Seems like it would work, but it seems fragile to me - I'm
> wondering how we can ensure that the private shrink list
> manipulations can be kept private.
>
> We have a similar situation with the inode cache (private shrink
> list) but the I_FREEING flag is set the entire time the inode is on
> the shrink list. Any new hash lookup or attempt to grab the inode
> that occurs while I_FREEING is set fails, so perhaps dentries also
> need a well defined "being torn down and freed" state where new
> references cannot be taken even though the dentry can still be
> found...
Ummm... You mean, have d_lookup() et.al. fail on something that is on
a shrink list?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-29 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 16:01 dcache shrink list corruption? Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 18:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 18:16 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 19:10 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 21:18 ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-29 21:48 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-04-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 23:20 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:31 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 4:04 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 15:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 15:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 16:03 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 17:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 18:36 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 18:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 19:02 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 19:59 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 20:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 21:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 22:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:43 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 2:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 3:12 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-01 14:34 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:02 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:05 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 8:43 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 9:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 5:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 9:00 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 22:40 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 23:06 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 4:26 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-03 18:25 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:21 ` Al Viro
2014-05-04 6:29 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 10:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-06 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:52 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 19:15 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 22:32 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 17:56 ` Al Viro
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