In message <Pine.GSO.4.58-039.0406211738380.28175@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derrick J Brashear writes: >what happened to the "we don't need TryFlushDcacheChildren" theory? i still subscribe to the d_prune_aliases() theory but in order for afs_TryFlushDcacheChildren() to be safe i am pretty sure we will need a lock_kernel() around it.