linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support

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Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:54:44 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	satyam@...radead.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support

Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:57:07 -0600,
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> 
>>> Got it: It's patch 6, the readdir simplification.
>>>
>>> (The udev on that guest is ancient (063)...)
>> Ok.  That is weird.
> 
> More weirdness. If I activate another dasd from the repair file
> system, /dev/dasdb is created...
> 
> Same if I set the card reader online: /dev/vmrdr-0.0.000c is created as
> expected.
> 
>> Does it depend on the order in which the dentries are returned from
>> readdir?
> 
> I'd think not.
> 
>> Unless I made a really stupid error otherwise the two versions
>> of readdir should have the same semantics.
> 
> Yes, your patch looks sane. I have no idea why it breaks stuff...

Are you sure it's patch 6?  Patch 17 adds a deadlock in rename path.

-- 
tejun
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