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author | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-24 17:58:14 +0000 |
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committer | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-04-24 17:58:14 +0000 |
commit | 711d7d880dfbdaa80494fa6d55d3dd97901d938c (patch) | |
tree | d445aa75bb769f525ab464c9bbf629fa94c1104c /sys/kern | |
parent | 073326ad333d5e695388960875e6d66f94f0a361 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-711d7d880dfbdaa80494fa6d55d3dd97901d938c.zip FreeBSD-src-711d7d880dfbdaa80494fa6d55d3dd97901d938c.tar.gz |
Fix a braino in the v_id wraparound code. Give more (current) details
in comment.
PR: 11307
Spotted by: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern')
-rw-r--r-- | sys/kern/vfs_cache.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c b/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c index a8ac5e7..ac6082f 100644 --- a/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c +++ b/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ * SUCH DAMAGE. * * @(#)vfs_cache.c 8.5 (Berkeley) 3/22/95 - * $Id: vfs_cache.c,v 1.37 1997/12/19 23:18:37 bde Exp $ + * $Id: vfs_cache.c,v 1.38 1998/09/09 07:41:41 bde Exp $ */ #include <sys/param.h> @@ -318,13 +318,21 @@ nchinit() } /* - * Invalidate all entries to particular vnode. + * Invalidate all entries to a particular vnode. * - * We actually just increment the v_id, that will do it. The stale entries - * will be purged by lookup as they get found. If the v_id wraps around, we - * need to ditch the entire cache, to avoid confusion. No valid vnode will - * ever have (v_id == 0). + * Remove all entries in the namecache relating to this vnode and + * change the v_id. We take the v_id from a global counter, since + * it becomes a handy sequence number in crash-dumps that way. + * No valid vnode will ever have (v_id == 0). + * + * XXX: Only time and the size of v_id prevents this from failing: + * XXX: In theory we should hunt down all (struct vnode*, v_id) + * XXX: soft references and nuke them, at least on the global + * XXX: v_id wraparound. The period of resistance can be extended + * XXX: by incrementing each vnodes v_id individually instead of + * XXX: using the global v_id. */ + void cache_purge(vp) struct vnode *vp; @@ -336,9 +344,9 @@ cache_purge(vp) while (!TAILQ_EMPTY(&vp->v_cache_dst)) cache_zap(TAILQ_FIRST(&vp->v_cache_dst)); - nextid++; - while (nextid == vp->v_id || !nextid) - continue; + do + nextid++; + while (nextid == vp->v_id || !nextid); vp->v_id = nextid; vp->v_dd = vp; vp->v_ddid = 0; |