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Subject: Re: [patch 18/19] dentries: Add constructor
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> In order to support defragmentation on the dentry cache we need to have
> a determined object state at all times. Without a constructor the object
> would have a random state after allocation.
> 
> So provide a constructor.

I'm dropping these dentry patches for now because of boot-time oopses.