From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756122Ab2F2Q6P (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:58:15 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:61193 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755855Ab2F2Q6O (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:58:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:58:09 -0700 From: "tj@kernel.org" To: Li Zefan Cc: shyju pv , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "cgroups@vger.kernel.org" , Sanil kumar , Masanari Iida Subject: Re: 3.5-rc3: BUG: Dentry still in use (1) [unmount of cgroup cgroup] Message-ID: <20120629165809.GB21048@google.com> References: <20120627182903.GP15811@google.com> <4FEBF4B7.2070105@huawei.com> <20120628180712.GC22641@google.com> <4FED10DB.7040500@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FED10DB.7040500@huawei.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey, On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:20:11AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > Can you please elaborate a bit? I'm not really following? Where does > > the last root->d_count-- come from? > > > From my limited knowledge about vfs internal, seems the parent's refcnt won't go down > to 0 before its children. When mkdir, the parent's refcnt will be incremented, and > after rmdir, dput(subdir) will drop subdir's refcnt and then drop parent's. > > So when dropping the subdir's refcnt and leading the superblock to be killed, the root's > dentry is still > 0. Heh, yeah, I thought you found who was holding out on the refcnt. :) > >> I use this script to reproduce the bug: > >> > >> mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt > >> mkdir /mnt/sub > >> sleep 100 < /mnt/sub & > >> kill $! > >> wait $! > >> rmdir /mnt/sub > >> umount /mnt > > Unfortunately, this doesn't reproduce the bug here either. :( > > I can reproduce the bug reliably.. Try s/cpu/perf or s/cpu/net_cls, which have fewer > cgroup files? Hmm... weird. Maybe some debug config option I have is preventing the race from occurring as reliably? Can you please attach your .config? Thanks. -- tejun