Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:38:24 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry |
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > OR > > - keep part of the patch from Hugh, treating negative in RCU mode as > "need to unlazy".
No, urgh, that's horrible.
Not being able to do an RCU lookup of negative dentries would be really sad. There are some loads where a negative dentry is the *common* case.
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