Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Fri, 06 May 2005 14:52:17 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:38 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I think it should work without Artem's patch too, since prune_icache() > removes the inode from the hash chain at the same time (under > inode_lock) as changing it's state to I_FREEING. So the pruned inode > will never be seen by iget().
Doh. Yes, of course -- it had temporarily escaped my notice that the whole _point_ of Artem's patch is that prune_icache() is currently broken in precisely the way you describe.
-- dwmw2
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