From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache: remove trylock loops (was Re: [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list())
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:36:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313003647.GS30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woygan6p.fsf@xmission.com>
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 06:28:30PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Given that nfs_kill_super calls generic_shutdown_super and
> generic_shutdown_super calls shrink_dcache_for_umount
> I would argue that nfsv2 and nfsv3 are buggy in the same
> case, as shrink_dcache_for_umount is called on something
> that is not the root of the filesystem's dentry tree.
That's not a problem - it will simply evict a subtree first,
then go through ->s_roots and kill each piece.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-13 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 23:50 [PATCH v2 0/6] fs/dcache: avoid trylock loops John Ogness
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] fs/dcache: Remove stale comment from dentry_kill() John Ogness
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] fs/dcache: Move dentry_kill() below lock_parent() John Ogness
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] fs/dcache: Avoid the try_lock loop in d_delete() John Ogness
2018-02-23 2:08 ` Al Viro
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] fs/dcache: Avoid the try_lock loops in dentry_kill() John Ogness
2018-02-23 2:22 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 3:12 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 3:16 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 5:46 ` Al Viro
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] fs/dcache: Avoid a try_lock loop in shrink_dentry_list() John Ogness
2018-02-23 3:48 ` Al Viro
2018-02-22 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] fs/dcache: Avoid remaining " John Ogness
2018-02-23 3:58 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 4:08 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 13:57 ` John Ogness
2018-02-23 15:09 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 17:42 ` Al Viro
2018-02-23 20:13 ` [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list() (was Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] fs/dcache: Avoid remaining try_lock loop in shrink_dentry_list()) Al Viro
2018-02-23 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-24 0:22 ` Al Viro
2018-02-25 7:40 ` Al Viro
2018-02-27 5:16 ` dcache: remove trylock loops (was Re: [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list()) John Ogness
2018-03-12 19:13 ` Al Viro
2018-03-12 20:05 ` Al Viro
2018-03-12 20:33 ` Al Viro
2018-03-13 1:12 ` NeilBrown
2018-04-28 0:10 ` Al Viro
2018-03-12 20:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-12 20:39 ` Al Viro
2018-03-12 23:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-12 23:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-13 0:37 ` Al Viro
2018-03-13 0:50 ` Al Viro
2018-03-13 4:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-14 23:20 ` [PATCH] fs: Teach path_connected to handle nfs filesystems with multiple roots Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 22:34 ` Al Viro
2018-03-13 0:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-03-12 22:14 ` dcache: remove trylock loops (was Re: [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list()) Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-13 20:46 ` John Ogness
2018-03-13 21:05 ` John Ogness
2018-03-13 23:59 ` Al Viro
2018-03-14 2:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-14 8:18 ` John Ogness
2018-03-02 9:04 ` [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list() (was Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] fs/dcache: Avoid remaining try_lock loop in shrink_dentry_list()) Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-02-23 0:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] fs/dcache: avoid trylock loops Linus Torvalds
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