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SubjectRe: SLUB defrag pull request?
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > I think it's wrong to unhash dentries while they are possibly still
> > being used. You can do the shrink_dcache_parent() here, but should
> > leave the unhashing to be done by prune_one_dentry(), after it's been
> > checked that there are no other users of the dentry.
> >
> >
> d_invalidate() calls shrink_dcache_parent() as needed and will fail if
> there are other users of the dentry.

Only if it's a directory. Now unhashing an in-use non-directory is
not fatal, but you'll get things like "filename (deleted)" in /proc,
and suchlike. Don't do it.

Miklos


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