Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers

Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28T22:26:53Z

On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:17:43 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> You seem to have used SRCU as a "I don't want to do refcounts" thing.
> I bet you'll notice that it clarifies things *enormously* to just use
> refcounts.

Well, removing creating dentries in the readdir() logic is what opened
up the door to a lot of simplification. Thanks for helping me with that.
As I believe that may have been the source of most of the deadlocks we
were struggling with.

But yeah, kref probably could have fixed that too.

-- Steve