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Alexander Viro authored
- sane dentry retention. Namely, we don't kill /proc/<pid> dentries at the first opportunity (as the current tree does). Instead we do the following: * ->d_delete() kills it only if process is already dead. * all ->lookup() in proc/base.c end with checking if process is still alive and unhash if it isn't. * proc_pid_lookup() (lookup for /proc/<pid>) caches reference to dentry in task_struct. It's _not_ counted in ->d_count. * ->d_iput() resets said reference to NULL. * release_task() (burying a zombie) checks if there is a cached reference and if there is - shrinks the subtree. * tasklist_lock is used for exclusion. That way we are guaranteed that after release_task() all dentries in /proc/<pid> will go away as soon as possible; OTOH, before release_task() we have normal retention policy - they go away under memory pressure with the same rules as for dentries on any other fs.
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