Re: dcache shrink list corruption?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Patches look okay to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
>>       dentry_kill(): don't try to remove from shrink list
>
> Backport of this to 3.12 was tested by IBM and apparently fixes the
> issue for them (I didn't backport the cleanup patches only the actual
> fix)

Ok, good.

>>       don't remove from shrink list in select_collect()
>
> I've also asked them to test this, although I think this is even
> harder to trigger.  But at least the non-racy codepaths need to be
> tested.

I'll be incommunicado all next week, so I think I should merge this
all now rather than later.

Al, mind doing a real pull request?

                Linus
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