On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:52:12AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > I wanted to put it early on in the unmount path so that the shrinker > was guaranteed to be gone before evict_inodes() was called. That > would mean that it is obviously safe to remove the iprune_sem > serialisation in that function. The iprune_sem removal is fine as soon as you have a per-sb shrinker for the inodes which keeps an active reference on the superblock until all the inodes are evicted. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>