Change History v1->v2: - Check for internal vs external dname, taking d_lock only for external dname for safety. - Replace memchr() by a byte-by-byte checking for loop. - Try lockless dentry to pathname conversion 3 times before falling back to taking the rename_lock to prevent live-lock. - Make code re-factoring suggested by George Spelvin. Waiman Long (1): dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock fs/dcache.c | 213 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html