> >Given that background, I thought our main concern was with respect to
> >unmount. The race was between shrink_dcache_parent() (called from unmount)
> >and shrink_dcache_memory() (called from the allocator), hence the fix
> >for the race condition.
> Partial fix doesn't make much sense from my point of view.
>
IMHO, It was not a partial fix. slab_drop() addition changed the assumptions
used by this fix
> >I just noticied that 2.6.16-rc* now seems to have drop_slab() where
> >PF_MEMALLOC is not set. So, we can still race with my fix if there
> >if /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches is written to and unmount is done in parallel.
> >
> >A simple hack would be to set PF_MEMALLOC in drop_slab(), but I do not
> >think it is a good idea.
> Yeah, playing with PF_MEMALLOC can be not so good idea :/
> And as it doesn't help in other cases it looks unpromising...
Yes, agreed.
>
> >>>Have you had any other feedback on this?
> >>here it is :)
> >Thanks for your detailed feedback
> Sorry, that I did it too late :/
>
No problem
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
Balbir
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