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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: check i_count under lock in evict_inodes
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 06:31:57PM -0700, David Chen wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> I'm not sure about the in-tree fs, but in zfsonlinux, it would offload
> iput to a thread, so this would happen there. And it would wait for
> the thread in put_super(), so that part is not a problem...

*shrug*  I hadn't looked (and won't look) at zfs glue, but I'd suggest
trying something along the line of stopping that thread in the beginning
of your ->kill_sb() (having told the sucker to stop offloading, of course)
and only then calling generic_shutdown_super()...