Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for locklessupdate of refcount

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 03:52:49PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> So it is the mnput_no_expire() function that is doing all the
> lg_global_lock() calls.

Interesting...  So you are getting a lot of mntput() with ->mnt_ns being
NULL?  I wonder which type it is...  Note that anything mounted will
have non-NULL ->mnt_ns until umount and anything obtained via
kern_mount/kern_mount_data will also have a non-NULL ->mnt_ns - until
kern_unmount().

Could you try to gather stats of that sort?  Normally that path should
be only hit by fput() when we have a lazy-unmounted fs and close an opened
file on it...

I see one potential stupidity in that area (simple_pin_fs() ought to set
->mnt_ns, with simple_release_fs() clearing it), but there's not a lot
of fs types that would use the damn thing...
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