Re: [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:46 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> The solution is to restore the old behavior, of unconditionally
> waiting on the waitqueue.  It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set
> initally, the task will go to sleep, and wake up when wake_up_inode()
> is called from generic_delete_inode() after removing the inode from
> the hash chain.

That's all well and good if it's actually generic_delete_inode() which
removes the inode from the hash chain. But if it's prune_icache() which
does that, you don't get the wakeup.

Applying Artem's patch will fix that.

-- 
dwmw2

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