Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch

[Alex Tomas]

>>>>> 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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