On Thu 2019-07-11 01:25:27, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 05:09:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:13:11 +0200 Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I'm getting some nastyness from lockref / memory management.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas? Any ideas who to talk to?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd be suspecting Al's a99d7580f66e737 ("Teach shrink_dcache_parent()
> > to cope with mixed-filesystem shrink lists").
> 
> It is, and it's already fixed.  See 9bdebc2bd1c4 with fixes folded in;
> the incremental is
> 
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index d8732cf2e302..01b8cae41a71 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -1555,7 +1555,9 @@ void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *parent)
>               d_walk(parent, &data, select_collect2);
>               if (data.victim) {
>                       struct dentry *parent;
> +                     spin_lock(&data.victim->d_lock);
>                       if (!shrink_lock_dentry(data.victim)) {
> +                             spin_unlock(&data.victim->d_lock);
>                               rcu_read_unlock();
>                       } else {
>                               rcu_read_unlock();

Thanks! It only happened once under high load, so it seems it will not
be coming back.
                                                                Pavel
                                                                
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