On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't know if it is safe to read d_lockref.count without locking That's not the issue. Since commit 84d08fa888e7 ("helper for reading ->d_count") non-core VFS code shouldn't try to access d_count directly at all. So instead of "dentry->d_count" it should use "d_count(dentry)". Then the code doesn't need to know about lockrefs or anything like that at all. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html