tree 37bd46f1d30534d8f03a186338295b653e75886c
parent 5853b4f06f7b9b56f37f457d7923f7b96496074e
author Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> 1302892769 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1302906492 -0700

vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number

During RCU walk in path_lookupat and path_openat, the rcu lookup
frequently failed if looking up an absolute path, because when root
directory was looked up, seq number was not properly set in nameidata.

We dropped out of RCU walk in nameidata_drop_rcu due to mismatch in
directory entry's seq number.  We reverted to slow path walk that need
to take references.

With the following patch, I saw a 50% increase in an exim mail server
benchmark throughput on a 4-socket Nehalem-EX system.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>