On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:29:19 -0600, ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > I currently have two practical solutions on the table. > > - Make the s_sibling list walk RCU safe so it does not require us to > grab the sysfs_mutex. This works but is a bit complicated. But it would be nice, I guess :) > > - Just kill all of the dentries in sysfs_move_dir and sysfs_rename_dir. > The semantics are that no one can be using the device at the time > of a rename or a move (as I read the callers) so dropping the dentries > and making it look like a delete/add pair to the users should be > acceptable and a whole lot simpler. Hm, I'm not sure I understand you here. What do you mean by "using the device"? Do you mean dropping the sysfs_dirents? Or am I just confused? _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
