> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 21:05 +0200, Jakob Goldbach wrote:
> >
> > So the lockup in __d_lookup may just relate to newer patchless clients.
> >
I got rid of my dcache chain corruption by adding patch below and
exporting _d_rehash from kernel (offcourse, no longer patchless).
Could this fix a race in patchless code ?
/Jakob
p.s: A kind soul came up with this. Im not a kernel hacker.
--- ./lustre/llite/dcache.c.xxx 2007-09-27 16:04:08.000000000 +0400
+++ ./lustre/llite/dcache.c 2008-05-29 11:53:07.000000000 +0400
@@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ revalidate_finish:
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
lock_dentry(de);
__d_drop(de);
+ _d_rehash(de);
unlock_dentry(de);
- __d_rehash(de, 0);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
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