Maybe you're not running applications which install inotify watches. This
is apparently triggerable by doing `touch foo;rm foo;touch foo' in a watched
directory.
Nick, isn't it simply a matter of..
--- devel/fs/dcache.c~inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry-fix 2006-03-01 12:10:48.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/fs/dcache.c 2006-03-01 12:11:33.000000000 -0800
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ repeat:
goto kill_it;
if (list_empty(&dentry->d_lru)) {
dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
+ dentry->d_flags &= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
}
_
-