Just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE in ->s_d_flags and be done with that. Dentries there live for as long as they are pinned; once the refcount hits zero, that's it. The same, of course, goes for other tree-in-dcache filesystems - more in the next commits... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 0ecb49113bb2..dd84b1c554a8 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -4971,7 +4971,6 @@ static void shmem_put_super(struct super_block *sb) static const struct dentry_operations shmem_ci_dentry_ops = { .d_hash = generic_ci_d_hash, .d_compare = generic_ci_d_compare, - .d_delete = always_delete_dentry, }; #endif @@ -5028,6 +5027,7 @@ static int shmem_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc) #else sb->s_flags |= SB_NOUSER; #endif /* CONFIG_TMPFS */ + sb->s_d_flags |= DCACHE_DONTCACHE; sbinfo->max_blocks = ctx->blocks; sbinfo->max_inodes = ctx->inodes; sbinfo->free_ispace = sbinfo->max_inodes * BOGO_INODE_SIZE; -- 2.39.5