Re: [patch 6/9] mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache

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On 01/10/2014 01:10 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree
> upon evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU,
> an iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this
> point, reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode
> freeing code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.
> 
> Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code
> sets under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim
> will check for this flag before installing shadow pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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