On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This patch adds a new dentry flag that is set when the dentry is removed > from the lru and put on the list being processed by > shrink_dentry_list(). The flag is cleared in dentry_lru_del() which is > called if the dentry gets a new reference just before it's pruned. > > Thoughts? Looks reasonable. Were you actually able to reproduce the hang, or how did you notice? Al, comments? Linus -- 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