After commit 45f78b0a2743 ("fs/dcache: Move the wakeup from __d_lookup_done() to the caller."), we will only wake up d_wait_lookup() after adding dentry to dentry_hashtable. Therefore, there is no need to keep retries about d_unhashed() in d_alloc_parallel(). Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index e3634916ffb9..543833eedd8c 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2584,8 +2584,6 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_parallel(struct dentry *parent, goto mismatch; if (unlikely(dentry->d_parent != parent)) goto mismatch; - if (unlikely(d_unhashed(dentry))) - goto mismatch; if (unlikely(!d_same_name(dentry, parent, name))) goto mismatch; /* OK, it *is* a hashed match; return it */ -- 2.48.1