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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/14] dcache: Add a new helper function d_count()
 to return refcount
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:48:46 -0400
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Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
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On 07/08/2013 09:09 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch adds a new helper function d_count() in dcache.h for
> returning the current reference count of the dentry object. It
> should be used by all the files outside of the core dcache.c and
> namei.c files.

I want to know people's thought of spinning out patches 3-11 of this 
patch series as the making the d_count() helper the standard way of 
accessing the reference count in dentry outside of dcache.c and namei.c 
should be non-controversial. By merging it first, this will make 
revising this patch series easier and involving less people.

Regards,
Longman