On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Al Viro wrote: > Let's do d_invalidate() on random dentries and hope they go away. > With convoluted and brittle logics for deciding which ones to > spare, which is actually wrong. This will pick mountpoints > and tear them out, to start with. > > NAKed-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > And this is a NAK for the entire approach; if it has a positive refcount, > LEAVE IT ALONE. Period. Don't play this kind of games, they are wrong. > d_invalidate() is not something that can be done to an arbitrary dentry. Well could you help us figure out how to do it the right way? We (the MM guys) are having a hard time not being familiar with the filesystem stuff. This is an RFC and we want to know how to do this right.
