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SubjectRe: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch
Quoting Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>:

> >>>>> 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?
>

Nope, d_alloc() is setting d_flags to DCACHE_UNHASHED. Therefore it is not found
by __d_lookup() until it is rehashed which is implicit done by ->lookup().

Jan
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