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

From: Jan Blunck
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 14:06:28 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, Kirill Korotaev wrote:

> CPU 1 CPU 2
> ~~~~~ ~~~~~
> umount /dev/sda1
> generic_shutdown_super shrink_dcache_memory()
> shrink_dcache_parent dput dentry
> select_parent prune_one_dentry()
> <<<< child is dead, locks are released,
> but parent is still referenced!!! >>>>
> skip dentry->parent,
> since it's d_count > 0
>
> message: BUSY inodes after umount...
> <<< parent is left on dentry_unused list,
> referencing freed super block >>>

I see. The problem is that dcache_lock is given up before dereferencing the
parent. But your patch seems to be wrong anyway IMHO. I'll post patches in a
seperate thread.

Regards,
Jan

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