Linus Torvalds 292a2bcd17 Merge tag 'pull-dcache-busy-wait' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs ...

Pull dcache busy loop updates from Al Viro:
 "Fix livelocks in shrink_dcache_tree()

  If shrink_dcache_tree() finds a dentry in the middle of being killed
  by another thread, it has to wait until the victim finishes dying,
  gets detached from the tree and ceases to pin its parent.

  The way we used to deal with that amounted to busy-wait;
  unfortunately, it's not just inefficient but can lead to reliably
  reproducible hard livelocks.

  Solved by having shrink_dentry_tree() attach a completion to such
  dentry, with dentry_unlist() calling complete() on all objects
  attached to it. With a bit of care it can be done without growing
  struct dentry or adding overhead in normal case"

* tag 'pull-dcache-busy-wait' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of busy-waiting in shrink_dcache_tree()
  dcache.c: more idiomatic "positives are not allowed" sanity checks
  struct dentry: make ->d_u anonymous
  for_each_alias(): helper macro for iterating through dentries of given inode

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expfs.c

Merge tag 'pull-dcache-busy-wait' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

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