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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mason@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix nr_unused accounting, and avoid recursing in iput with I_WILL_FREE set
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:47:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051019074757.GA30541@x30.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018171335.3b308b3e.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:13:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well according to my assertion (below), the inode in __sync_single_inode()
> cannot have a zero refcount, so the whole if() statement is never executed.

It can, but only if it comes from I_WILL_FREE path
(generic_forget_inode).  See the write_inode_now in
generic_forget_inode.

My BUG_ON already makes sure that when i_count is zero, I_WILL_FREE is
set (I_WILL_FREE will prevent the inode to be freed by the vm as well,
so it's ok).

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18  8:26 [PATCH] fix nr_unused accounting, and avoid recursing in iput with I_WILL_FREE set Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-19  0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19  0:40   ` Chris Mason
2005-10-19  1:15     ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19  1:58       ` Chris Mason
2005-10-19  2:26         ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19  2:58           ` Chris Mason
2005-10-25  2:21           ` Chris Mason
2005-10-25 14:14             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-19  7:47   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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