Nick Piggin:
> This is a big and complex change by any measure, so
> please don't be afraid to ask for help or clarification. I'd
> also really like to be able to update documentation
> based on questions from fs maintainers (in and out of
> tree) who are trying to follow it and bring their code up to
> speed.
Question about what d_lock protects.
Can we skip d_lock when we access d_inode and d_name during its parent
i_mutex is held?
Should these BUG_ON be placed after d_lock?
void dentry_update_name_case(struct dentry *dentry, struct qstr *name)
{
BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex));
BUG_ON(dentry->d_name.len != name->len); /* d_lookup gives this */
spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
:::
J. R. Okajima
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