Re: [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon_super

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:10:27PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Since sysfs no longer stores fs directory information in the dcache
> on a permanent basis kill_litter_super it is inappropriate and actively
> wrong.  It will decrement the count on all dentries left in the
> dcache before trying to free them.
> 
> At the moment this is not biting us only because we never unmount sysfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>

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tejun
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References:
- [PATCH 5/5] sysfs: make sysfs_addrm_finish() return void
  - From: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
- [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
- [PATCH 01/25] sysfs: Move all of inode initialization into sysfs_init_inode
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
- [PATCH 02/25] sysfs: Remove sysfs_instantiate
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
- [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon_super
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)

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