Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch
From: Alex Tomas
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 08:28:44 EST
>>>>> 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?
thanks, Alex
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