[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Linux kernel panic, OpenAFS client, gconf

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, chas williams (contractor) wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.58-039.0406211554060.28175@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derrick J Brashear writes:
> >woot!
>
> woot yourself.  take a look at the attached oops.   i have atleast two
> like this even after the adding the BKL to dentry_revalidate.  one way
> this could happen would be a race with afs_TryFlushDcacheChildren().

what happened to the "we don't need TryFlushDcacheChildren" theory?

> it seems likely that we need to grab lock_kernel() to prevent any lookups
> while the dentries are in a state of flux.