linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] shrink_dcache

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:30 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mgorman@...e.de, gregkh@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] shrink_dcache_parent() deadlock

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>
> I tested Dave's patch and the bug can still be easily reproduced.
>
> And that's to be expected, as the intermediate "being on the lru"
> state that Dave's patch eliminates doesn't play a fundamental part in
> the mechanism of the livelock.  It does eliminate one trylock, but
> that's not the one critical to this bug (removing it is a very good
> idea anyway).
>
> The critical trylock here is the one in dentry_kill() which tries to
> lock the parent.

Ok. Here's your patch munged for current -git. You've got most of a
changelog, can you send this out with the right subject and a
sign-off, and re-test with the current git just to make sure.

Al, do you want to handle this or should I take it directly? I'm
assuming nobody has any objections to Miklos' patch?

                                    Linus

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