Re: [PATCH] Busy inodes after unmount, be more verbose ingeneric_shutdown_super

[Andrew Morton]

Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Jan 17, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 
> > Olaf, can you please check if my patch for busy inodes from -mm tree 
> > helps you?
> 
> I cant reprpoduce it at will, thats the thing. It likely happens with NFS
> mounts. agruen@xxxxxxx did some work recently. But I remember even with
> these changes (for a 2.6.13), the busy inodes did not disappear.
> 
> Merging your patch into our cvs will give it more testing, I will do
> that tomorrow if noone disagrees.
> 

The patch is certainly safe and stable.  But it's so huge and complex and
ugly that I was hoping that a better fix would turn up.  The bug itself
takes quite some ingenuity to hit.
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