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Andrew Morton authored
From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Here is a patch to use seqlock for real_lookup race with d_lookup as suggested by Linus. The race condition can result in duplicate dentry when d_lookup fails due concurrent d_move in some unrelated directory. Apart from real_lookup, lookup_hash()->cached_lookup() can also fail due to same reason. So, for that I am doing the d_lookup again. Now we have __d_lookup (called from do_lookup() during pathwalk) and d_lookup which uses seqlock to protect againt rename race. dcachebench numbers (lower is better) don't have much difference on a 4-way PIII xeon SMP box. base-2565 Average usec/iteration 19059.4 Standard Deviation 503.07 base-2565 + seq_lock Average usec/iteration 18843.2 Standard Deviation 450.57
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