On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:31:53PM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > -static void prune_dcache(int count)
> > +static void prune_dcache(int count, struct super_block *sb)
> > {
> > spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> > for (; count ; count--) {
> > @@ -417,8 +425,10 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count)
> > spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
> > continue;
> > }
> > - /* If the dentry was recently referenced, don't free it. */
> > - if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED) {
> > + /* If the dentry was recently referenced, or is for
> > + * a unmounting filesystem, don't free it. */
> > + if ((dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REFERENCED) ||
> > + (dentry->d_sb != sb && dentry->d_sb->s_root == NULL)) {
> > dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REFERENCED;
> > list_add(&dentry->d_lru, &dentry_unused);
> > dentry_stat.nr_unused++;
>
> You have to down_read the rw-semaphore sb->s_umount since sb->s_root is
> protected by it :(
<snip>
Please do not beat me up for suggesting this. I was wondering if it
makes sense to add a PF_SHRINKER flag and set it in shrink_slab().
Use my solution, instead of PF_MEMALLOC check against PF_SHRINKER.
I think PF_SHRINKER might be a good idea, it might help us detect
races between the shrinker and other subsystems too - not only dcache.
It might be well worth adding in. If there is sufficient interest I can
send create and send out a patch.
Balbir
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