On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:12:41 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and ->deleted flag has problems (see below). > Switch to usual scheme: > * PDE is created with refcount 1 > * every de_get does +1 > * every de_put() and remove_proc_entry() do -1 > * once refcnt reaches 0, PDE is freed. > > This elegantly fixes at least two followint races (both observed) without new > locks, without abusing old locks, without spreading lock_kernel(): fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'r_start': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:424: error: 'struct proc_dir_entry' has no member named 'deleted' _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
