Re: [PATCH] vfs: check i_count under lock in evict_inodes

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 21:40:32 EST


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 06:31:57PM -0700, David Chen wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> I'm not sure about the in-tree fs, but in zfsonlinux, it would offload
> iput to a thread, so this would happen there. And it would wait for
> the thread in put_super(), so that part is not a problem...

And why exactly is your use of a broken and undistributable out of tree
module our problem?