On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:03:38AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > I also have a sick feeling that dentrys may become negative at any point > after __d_lookup_rcu() ..... Yes. To get stability of ->d_inode (assuming the sucker isn't pinned down in normal way by ->d_count) you need ->d_lock. > > Ho-hum... I can reach RHTS, but I'd rather do that at home boxen, if > > possible... Has it been reproduced on UP boxen with SMP kernels, BTW? > > Nope, I'd need to build a kernel specifically for that. I'm not sure how > useful that would be though since the test is specifically meant to > expose problems with multiple concurrent processes accessing an > automount tree. I don't see any problem running the Connectathon tests > which is essentially one automount and one client process. Heh... No, it's just that the only SMP box I have locally right now is dual ultrasparc. Anyway, I can live with RHTS. -- 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
