linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/6] fs: no games with DCACHE

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:31:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	npiggin@...e.de
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	raven@...maw.net, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] fs: no games with DCACHE_UNHASHED

From: npiggin@...e.de
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:28 +1100

> (this is in -mm)
> 
> Filesystems outside the regular namespace do not have to clear DCACHE_UNHASHED
> in order to have a working /proc/$pid/fd/XXX. Nothing in proc prevents the
> fd link from being used if its dentry is not in the hash.
> 
> Also, it does not get put into the dcache hash if DCACHE_UNHASHED is clear;
> that depends on the filesystem calling d_add or d_rehash.
> 
> So delete the misleading comments and needless code.
> 
> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

For networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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