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Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 09:56:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU symlinks
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
        Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>         d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
>
> could decide that *before* it does that "d_instantiate()", it could
> pre-populate the child list of 'dentry' with the lookup information
> for 'b' (and possibly recursively for 'c' too under 'd').

Yech, nfs uses d_splice_alias(), so we'd have to add some logic to
throw away any preloaded entries there if we actually have an alias
and end up merging and using the alias. Or something. Because I think
we'd have a dentry leak otherwise.

So it wouldn't work "as-is", but it might still be reasonably easy.

                    Linus
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