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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2012-06-29 16:20:47 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 00:16:33 -0500
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downloadlinux-e1a24bb0aa6abaa86b5a95638722ea2036dbaadd.tar.bz2
dcache: Don't set DISCONNECTED on "pseudo filesystem" dentries
I can't for the life of me see any reason why anyone should care whether a dentry that is never hooked into the dentry cache would need DCACHE_DISCONNECTED set. This originates from 4b936885ab04dc6e0bb0ef35e0e23c1a7364d9e5 "fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems", which probably just made the false assumption the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED was meant to be set on anything not connected to a parent somehow. So this is just confusing. Ideally the only uses of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED would be in the filehandle-lookup code, which needs it to ensure dentries are connected into the dentry tree before use. I left d_alloc_pseudo there even though it's now equivalent to __d_alloc(), just on the theory the name is better documentation of its intended use outside dcache.c. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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