On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:39:29PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Once we've found any connected parent, we know all our parents are > connected--that's true even if there's a concurrent rename. May as well > clear them all at once. > > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > if (!IS_ROOT(pd)) { > /* must have found a connected parent - great */ > - spin_lock(&pd->d_lock); > - pd->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; > - spin_unlock(&pd->d_lock); > + clear_disconnected(target_dir); > noprogress = 0; > } else if (pd == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root) { > printk(KERN_ERR "export: Eeek filesystem root is not connected, impossible\n"); You might as well throw a patch in to make this condition a BUG_ON, it would indicate a nasty bug in the dcache and has never triggered in the last 10 years as far as I know. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html