On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 07:49:49AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Secondly, we've had a very long time to let the dentry interface > mature, and so (a) the fundamental architecture of the dcache hasn't > been changing as much in the past few years, and (b) we should have > enough understanding of the interface to understand where we could put > tracepoints (e.g., close to the syscall interface) which would make it > much less likely that there would be any need to make > backwards-incompatible changes to tracepoints. FWIW, earlier this week I'd been going through the piles of tracepoints playing with ->d_name. Mature interface or not, they do manage to fuck that up...
