On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:46:48PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > * d_count(dentry) is -128 > > void lockref_mark_dead(struct lockref *lockref) > { > assert_spin_locked(&lockref->lock); > lockref->count = -128; > } ... done once refcount reaches zero and we decide to evict the sucker. Which, for dentry that happens to be * pwd of at least one process * root of at least one process * root dentry of a filesystem that contains at least one binary being executed means that we have dropped several references too many. Thus the comment about unbalanced dput() somewhere; the question is _where_ had that dput() been. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs