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That is to say, do *not* treat the ->d_inode or ->d_parent changes as "it's hard, return false; somebody must have grabbed it, so even if has zero refcount, we don't need to bother killing it - final dput() from whoever grabbed it would've done everything". First of all, that is not guaranteed. It might have been dropped by shrink_kill() handling of victim's parent, which would've found it already on a shrink list (ours) and decided that they don't need to put it on their shrink list. What's more, dentry_kill() is doing pretty much the same thing, cutting its own set of corners (it assumes that dentry can't go from positive to negative, so its inode can change but only once and only in one direction). Doing that right allows to get rid of that not-quite-duplication and removes the only reason for re-incrementing refcount before the call of dentry_kill(). Replacement is called lock_for_kill(); called under rcu_read_lock and with ->d_lock held. If it returns false, dentry has non-zero refcount and the same locks are held. If it returns true, dentry has zero refcount and all locks required by __dentry_kill() are taken. Part of __lock_parent() had been lifted into lock_parent() to allow its reuse. Now it's called with rcu_read_lock already held and dentry already unlocked. Note that this is not the final change - locking requirements for __dentry_kill() are going to change later in the series and the set of locks taken by lock_for_kill() will be adjusted. Both lock_parent() and __lock_parent() will be gone once that happens. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.