>>>>> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
