On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 04:11:49AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 07:39:54PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > OK, the warnings about averting your eyes very much apply; the thing below > > definitely needs more massage before it becomes acceptable (and no, it's > > not a single commit; I'm not that insane), but it changes behaviour in the > > way described above. Could you check if the livelock persists with it? > > No trace-generating code in there, so the logs should be compact enough... > > Here's an updated patch, hopefully slightly less vomit-inducing. Should > give the same behaviour as the previous one... Again, it's a cumulative > diff - I'm still massaging the splitup here.
BTW, it still leaves the "proceed to parent" case in shrink_dentry_list(); in theory, it's also vulnerable to the same livelock. Can be dealt pretty much the same way; I'd rather leave that one for right after -final, though, if the already posted variant turns out to be sufficient... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
