linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:50:39 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	satyam@...radead.org, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon_super

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:10:27PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Since sysfs no longer stores fs directory information in the dcache
> on a permanent basis kill_litter_super it is inappropriate and actively
> wrong.  It will decrement the count on all dentries left in the
> dcache before trying to free them.
> 
> At the moment this is not biting us only because we never unmount sysfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>

-- 
tejun
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