On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:20:06 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2025 at 08:21:37PM +0800, Jinliang Zheng wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not true. d_lookup_done() might be called without having
> *ever* hashed the sucker.
>
> Just think for a moment - what, for example, should happen
> if ->lookup() fails? Would you have d_alloc_parallel()
> coming during that ->lookup() (while dentry is in in-lookup
> hash) hang forever?
Haha, yes, my bad. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
Thank you, :)
Jinliang Zheng
>
> NAK.
