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Al Viro
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Use ->d_seq instead of grabbing ->d_lock; in case of shortname dentries that avoids any stores to shared data objects and in case of long names we are down to (unavoidable) atomic_inc on the external_name refcount. Makes the thing safer as well - the areas where ->d_seq is held odd are all nested inside the areas where ->d_lock is held, and the latter are much more numerous. NOTE: now that there is a lockless path where we might try to grab a reference to an already doomed external_name instance, it is no longer possible for external_name.u.count and external_name.u.head to share space (kudos to Linus for spotting that). To reduce the noise this commit just make external_name.u a struct (instead of union); the next commit will dissolve it. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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