Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:49:36 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: d_splice_alias() problem. |
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Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> wrote: > > for some time I am observing that during stress tests over NFS > > shrink_slab->...->prune_dcache()->prune_one_dentry()->...->iput() > > is called on inode with ->i_nlink == 0 which results in truncate and > file deletion. This is wrong in general (file system is re-entered), and > deadlock prone on some file systems.
The filesystem is only reentered if the caller of __alloc_pages() passed in __GFP_FS, in which case the bug is in the caller, not in shrink_slab().
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