On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: <...> > I'm not sure this approach is viable, unfortunately. Once you've dropped > the cap_delay_lock, then nothing protects the i_cap_delay_list head > anymore. > > So you could detach these objects and put them on the private list, and > then once you drop the spinlock another task could find one of them and > (e.g.) call __cap_delay_requeue on it, potentially corrupting your list. > > I think we'll need to come up with a different way to do this... Ugh, yeah I see what you mean. Another option I can think off is to time-bound this loop, so that it would stop after finding the first ci->i_hold_caps_max timestamp that was set *after* the start of the current run. I'll see if I can come up with an RFC shortly. Cheers, -- Luís