Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] fs: Remove i_devices from struct inode

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:14:26PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> Yeah, this idea clearly doesn't work.  But I wonder whether the
>> revised variant (which may be just moving cd_forget and bd_forget from
>> evict to iput_final) would work.
>
> How the hell is it better?  Neither of those will happen as long as dentry
> is retained.  And with /dev on tmpfs (which is bloody common) _that_ won't
> happen until device node is unlinked...

It's by my misunderstanding of how inode refcounting works.  The idea
would be to drop the cdev reference when there are no non-VFS-internal
references to the inode left.
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