Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch | From | Alex Tomas <> | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:23:01 +0300 |
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>>>>> Jan Blunck (JB) writes:
JB> i_sem does NOT protect the dcache. Also not in real_lookup(). The lock must be JB> acquired for ->lookup() and because we might sleep on i_sem, we have to get it JB> early and check for repopulation of the dcache.
dentry is part of dcache, right? i_sem protects dentry from being returned with incomplete data inside, right?
thanks, Alex
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