could you, plz, check patch sent by Eric above in this thread. I have tried it on my test node and it works for module you have provided. The problem exists without it.
Regards, Den Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation >> of d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind >> the back of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let >> the VFS know that this has happened. >> >> So until we get a proper test for keeping dentries in the dcache >> fix the current d_revalidate method by completely removing it. This >> returns us to the current status quo. > > Hello, > I know that I'm late to the party, but mount points is not only > problem with d_revalidate. With your patch in place module below gets > refcount incremented by two every time I do 'ls -la /proc/fs/vmblock'. > > > #include <linux/kernel.h> > #include <linux/module.h> > #include <linux/proc_fs.h> > > static int vmblockinit(void) { > struct proc_dir_entry *controlProcDirEntry; > > /* Create /proc/fs/vmblock */ > controlProcDirEntry = proc_mkdir("vmblock", proc_root_fs); > if (!controlProcDirEntry) { > printk(KERN_DEBUG "Bad...\n"); > return -EINVAL; > } > controlProcDirEntry->owner = THIS_MODULE; > return 0; > } > > static void vmblockexit(void) { > remove_proc_entry("vmblock", proc_root_fs); > } > > module_init(vmblockinit); > module_exit(vmblockexit); > > > (code comes from VMware's vmblock module, > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204462) > Thanks, > Petr > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/