On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Why? The kmem_cache_free() doesn't touch the contents of the object, > > does it? > > Because filesystem code may be running on other processors which may be > freeing the dentry. You are not actually listening to what I'm saying. Please read the question carefully again. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html