From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751336AbWAQCG2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:06:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751337AbWAQCG2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:06:28 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60653 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751336AbWAQCG1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:06:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:05:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Olaf Hering Cc: dev@sw.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Busy inodes after unmount, be more verbose in generic_shutdown_super Message-Id: <20060116180529.45283133.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060116232957.GA26342@suse.de> References: <20060116223431.GA24841@suse.de> <43CC2AF8.4050802@sw.ru> <20060116232957.GA26342@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Olaf Hering 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@suse.de 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.