Messages in this thread | | | Date | 10 Sep 2013 04:24:27 -0400 | From | "George Spelvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock |
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> _What_ "pathname translations"? Pathname resolution doesn't fall back to > seq_writelock() at all.
I meant the translation of dentry to pathname that this thread is about. Apologies for my confusing abbreviation. Since the reverse translation (pathname to dentry) is done a level at a time and people understand that it's not atomic, I agree with Linus that a livelock there is too remote a possibility to worry about.
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