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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking
 rename_lock
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:06:35 -0400
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On 09/05/2013 12:30 AM, George Spelvin wrote:
> As long as you're removing locks from prepend_name and complicating its
> innards, I notice that each and every call site follows it by prepending
> "/".  How about moving that into prepend_name as well?
>
> Also, if you happen to feel like it, you can delete the slash flag
> and replace it with "bptr != *buffer".
>
> Another small tweak would be to the global_root part of the code.
> You could move the is_mounted(vfsmnt) test up, and combine the tail of
> that code path with the regular exit.  All you have to do is change
> the !slash test to:
>
> 	if (error>= 0&&  bptr == *buffer) {	/* Root directory */
> 		if (--blen<  0)
> 			error = -ENAMETOOLONG;
> 		else
> 			*--bptr = '/';
> 	}
>
> This modified form is no more code than an inlined copy of prepend(),
> so we haven't actually slowed the fast path, but it avoids corrupting
> the return value of 0/1/2 if possible.

Thank for the suggestions. I will implement them in my v2 patch.

-Longman