Re: [PATCH v3 20/21] __dentry_kill(): new locking scheme
From: Max Kellermann
Date: Mon Jul 07 2025 - 14:12:11 EST
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, it tries to evict all non-busy dentries, along with the ones that
> are only busy due to (non-busy) children, etc.
But why did you add code that keeps looping if a dead/killed dentry
was found, even though there is no code to do anything with such a
dentry?