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SubjectRe: slab corruption in test9 (NFS related?)
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> In other words, your patch certainly looks obviously correct,
> but it also looks _so_ obviously correct that my alarm bells
> are going off. If the code was quite that broken at counting
> dentries, how the hell did it ever work AT ALL?

Given that d_free() now uses rcu, and hence defers the actual call to
kmem_cache_free(), might that not suffice to explain why actual
consequences are rare?

Cheers,
Trond
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