linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename

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Message-ID: <CALkWK0mMvaFcO7dXNbFxcP-42HxXs=s-v9HAR6zg369-ysJNMA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:45:38 +0530
From:	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>, john@...ffel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without
 taking rename_lock

Al Viro wrote:
> _What_ "pathname translations"?  Pathname resolution doesn't fall back to
> seq_writelock() at all.

Maybe it should then?
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