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    fs: change d_compare for rcu-walk · 621e155a
    Nick Piggin authored
    Change d_compare so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. This
    does put significant restrictions on what may be done from the callback,
    however there don't seem to have been any problems with in-tree fses.
    If some strange use case pops up that _really_ cannot cope with the
    rcu-walk rules, we can just add new rcu-unaware callbacks, which would
    cause name lookup to drop out of rcu-walk mode.
    
    For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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