From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [WIP] Unbork fs.h, 1 of 3
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:01:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2FFF1C.BC989F2F@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Kv7E-0003CM-00@starship.berlin>
Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> ...
> Nevertheless, the VFS still calls the module_exit for the root filesystem,
> which calls unregister_filesystem, which tries to destroy the its own inode
> cache, which isn't empty, because of special-case code connected with the
> root.
As far as I know, UML is the only port which implements exitcalls
for statically linked code. So this problem won't be observed on
the other architectures.
The problem still *exists*, of course, but isn't too serious. Maybe a
judicious hack to hide the problem would suffice. Depends how hard
it is to unmount root during shutdown.
-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 5:36 [RFC] [WIP] Unbork fs.h, 1 of 3 Daniel Phillips
2001-12-31 6:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-12-31 8:41 ` Daniel Phillips
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