linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 23 [ fs/dcache.c: Root dentry has weird name <SYSV00000000> ]

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:22:03 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 23 [ fs/dcache.c: Root dentry has weird
 name <SYSV00000000> ]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:22:42PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
>> [  120.310366] Root dentry has weird name <SYSV00000000>
>
> Umm...  Almost certainly a result of switching to shmem_file_setup() to
> d_alloc_pseudo(); I'll fix it (give the suckers ->d_op of their own).
> For now, just ignore the warning - it's harmless.  Or revert commit
> 7dbc68fcb0cdce27737dba9ee252f26d39d75fb6 and see if the rest of your
> problems persist; I would be very surprised if anything other than this
> warning had been caused by that commit.

Thanks for the quick fix!

YES, with "Revert "shmem_setup_file(): use d_alloc_pseudo() instead of
d_alloc()"" I do NOT see these warnings anymore.

If you have a fix or sth. for testing, please let me know!

- Sedat -

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