On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:07:33PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > Yes, that's a problem. > > Previously the dcache_lock would have blocked on the dput() ... mmm, I'd > missed that so far, although Nick didn't talk with me about his changes > very much at all and I didn't pay enough attention to his patch series > along the way, oops! Actually, dcache_lock blocks only the _final_ dput(). I.e. one that has refcount going to 0. Not the case here, so that's a problem without RCU stuff as well. -- 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