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1 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 6e4ea6d87774..d3902139b533 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -344,6 +344,24 @@ void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_drop);
/*
+ * d_clear_need_lookup - drop a dentry from cache and clear the need lookup flag
+ * @dentry: dentry to drop
+ *
+ * This is called when we do a lookup on a placeholder dentry that needed to be
+ * looked up. The dentry should have been hashed in order for it to be found by
+ * the lookup code, but now needs to be unhashed while we do the actual lookup
+ * and clear the DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag.
+ */
+void d_clear_need_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ __d_drop(dentry);
+ dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP;
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_clear_need_lookup);
+
+/*
* Finish off a dentry we've decided to kill.
* dentry->d_lock must be held, returns with it unlocked.
* If ref is non-zero, then decrement the refcount too.
@@ -432,8 +450,13 @@ repeat:
if (d_unhashed(dentry))
goto kill_it;
- /* Otherwise leave it cached and ensure it's on the LRU */
- dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
+ /*
+ * If this dentry needs lookup, don't set the referenced flag so that it
+ * is more likely to be cleaned up by the dcache shrinker in case of
+ * memory pressure.
+ */
+ if (!d_need_lookup(dentry))
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
dentry_lru_add(dentry);
dentry->d_count--;
@@ -1708,6 +1731,13 @@ struct dentry *d_add_ci(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
}
/*
+ * We are going to instantiate this dentry, unhash it and clear the
+ * lookup flag so we can do that.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(found)))
+ d_clear_need_lookup(found);
+
+ /*
* Negative dentry: instantiate it unless the inode is a directory and
* already has a dentry.
*/