d_revalidate not being called enough on mountpoints?

2007-04-16 Thread David Howells
Hi Al, I think there might be a problem in the VFS with d_revalidate() not being called enough on mountpoints. As far as I can tell from the printks in my AFS stuff, it's only called on the mounted-on dentry, and not the vfsmount-root dentry. However, with NFS at least (not so much AFS), can

Re: d_revalidate not being called enough on mountpoints?

2007-04-16 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:50 +0100, David Howells wrote: Hi Al, I think there might be a problem in the VFS with d_revalidate() not being called enough on mountpoints. As far as I can tell from the printks in my AFS stuff, it's only called on the mounted-on dentry, and not the vfsmount-root