On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > Christopher> Digging in a bit more, it looks like the files are > Christopher> being created/destroyed/renamed in /tmp, which is a > Christopher> tmpfs filesystem. > > Hmm... could there be a race in shmem_rename()?? Not likely - in that setup all calls of ->unlink() and ->rename() are completely serialized by ->i_sem on parent. One question: is it dcache or icache that ends up leaking? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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