Re: [RFC] Rearranging struct dentry for cache affinity

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:54:19 +1000


On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:11:46 -0400 (EDT)
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:

> futex.c is seriously b0rken.

Really? Other than changing over to get_sb_psuedo(), what does your patch
fix? As the filesystem should never be unmounted, what am I missing?

Thanks!
Rusty.

> @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@
> return -ENFILE;
> }
> filp->f_op = &futex_fops;
> - filp->f_dentry = dget(futex_dentry);
> + filp->f_vfsmnt = mntget(futex_mnt);
> + filp->f_dentry = dget(futex_mnt->mnt_root);
>
> if (signal) {
> filp->f_owner.pid = current->pid;

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