Re: mnt_count accounting broken

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 11:17:29 EDT

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    On Fri, 5 May 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > What is the point of the first check if(mnt->mnt_count > 2) in

    You don't want to call shrink_dcache_sb() without a good reason. This
    check stops most of the attempts to umount a busy fs.

    > do_umount()? It is re-checked later on after shrink_dcache_sb/fsync_dev
    so
    > why checking in the beginning as well? I do not see why it is needed and
    > things work much better without it...

    Really? That's funny... You mean that something changes if you remove it?
    Then we are *deep* in it.

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