Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 06 May 2005 14:33:24 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:46 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The solution is to restore the old behavior, of unconditionally > waiting on the waitqueue. It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set > initally, the task will go to sleep, and wake up when wake_up_inode() > is called from generic_delete_inode() after removing the inode from > the hash chain.
That's all well and good if it's actually generic_delete_inode() which removes the inode from the hash chain. But if it's prune_icache() which does that, you don't get the wakeup.
Applying Artem's patch will fix that.
-- dwmw2
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