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Message-Id: <1301522968-4382-7-git-send-email-sage@newdream.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:09:27 -0700
From:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mszeredi@...e.cz,
	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] libfs: drop unneeded dentry_unhash

There are no libfs issues with dangling references to empty directories.
Replace dentry_unhash() calls with shrink_dcache_parent().

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
---
 fs/libfs.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 91a3710..65aa858 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -311,8 +311,7 @@ int simple_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (!simple_empty(dentry))
 		return -ENOTEMPTY;
 
-	dentry_unhash(dentry);
-
+	shrink_dcache_parent(dentry);
 	drop_nlink(dentry->d_inode);
 	simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
 	drop_nlink(dir);
@@ -325,8 +324,8 @@ int simple_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
 	int they_are_dirs = S_ISDIR(old_dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
 
-	if (new_dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(new_dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
-		dentry_unhash(new_dentry);
+	if (new_dentry->d_inode && they_are_dirs)
+		shrink_dcache_parent(new_dentry);
 
 	if (!simple_empty(new_dentry))
 		return -ENOTEMPTY;
-- 
1.7.0

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