Re: [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix

[Miklos Szeredi]

> That's all well and good if it's actually generic_delete_inode() which
> removes the inode from the hash chain. But if it's prune_icache() which
> does that, you don't get the wakeup.
> 
> Applying Artem's patch will fix that.

I think it should work without Artem's patch too, since prune_icache()
removes the inode from the hash chain at the same time (under
inode_lock) as changing it's state to I_FREEING.  So the pruned inode
will never be seen by iget().

Miklos
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