On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 08:29:37PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > > + /* Otherwise we just unhash it to be rehashed afresh via > > + * lookup if necessary > > + */ > > + d_drop(dentry); > > So we can even drop this part and retain the top condition as it was. > d_add does not care if the dentry we are feeding it was hashed or not, > so do you see any downsides to doing that I wonder? d_add() on hashed dentry will end up reaching this: static void __d_rehash(struct dentry * entry, struct hlist_bl_head *b) { BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(entry)); -- 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