Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:37:51 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: dcache: remove trylock loops (was Re: [BUG] lock_parent() breakage when used from shrink_dentry_list()) |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 06:52:31PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ah. I see now there is now the s_roots list that handles > that bit of strangeness. > > So one path is to simply remove the heuristic from > path_connected. > > Another path is to have nfsv2 and nfsv3 not set s_root at all. > Leaving the heuristic working for the rest of the filesystems, > and generally simplifying the code. > > Something like the diff below I should think.
> + /* Leave nfsv2 and nfsv3 s_root == NULL */
Now, grep fs/super.c for s_root. Or try to boot it, for that matter...
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