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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: maneesh@in.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Dick Streefland <dick.streefland@xs4all.nl>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 doesn't expire
Date: 05 Aug 2003 22:01:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060146067.18687.9.camel@ixodes.goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030806050003.GB1298@in.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:00, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> +	if (vfs) {
> +		if (is_vfsmnt_tree_busy(vfs))
> +			ret--;
> +		/* just to reduce ref count taken in lookup_mnt
> +	 	 * cannot call mntput() here
> +	 	 */
> +		atomic_dec(&vfs->mnt_count);

I wonder if we shouldn't make this atomic_dec_and_test with a BUG, just
for paranoia's sake.

	J


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-06  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05 22:16 [PATCH] autofs4 doesn't expire Dick Streefland
2003-08-05 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-06  0:03   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-08-06  4:28   ` Maneesh Soni
2003-08-06  4:34     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-08-06  5:00       ` Maneesh Soni
2003-08-06  5:01         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2003-08-06  5:08         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-06  5:38           ` Maneesh Soni

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