From b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:31:38 +0200 Subject: vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill() IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock deadlock. Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit. The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too, which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry tree. This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag. IBM reported successful test results with this patch. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/dcache.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index caa34e50537e..59200795482e 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ struct dentry_operations { #define DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY \ (DCACHE_MOUNTED|DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT|DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT) +#define DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED 0x100000 + extern seqlock_t rename_lock; static inline int dname_external(struct dentry *dentry) -- cgit v1.2.1