On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:51:08PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > /proc and similar non-modular filesystems do not need a rcu_barrier > in deactivate_locked_super. Being non-modular there is no danger > of the rcu callback running after the module is unloaded. There's more than just a module unload there, though - actual freeing struct super_block also happens past that rcu_barrier()... -- 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