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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:34:45 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] vfs: reorganize do_lookup

> +	/*
> +	 * Don't bother with __d_lookup: callers are for creat as
> +	 * well as unlink, so a lot of the time it would cost
> +	 * a double lookup.
> +	 */
> +	dentry = d_lookup(base, name);

This comment isn't true anymore now, although the actual code should
still be fine given that we already did the __d_lookup before for
regular lookups.
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