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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:37:17 -0800
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Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>
> Nick, what stops a dentry from going away during the rcu-walk?

Dentries (and now inodes) are all RCU-free'd. So the dentry might "go
away", but it wouldn't actually be physically free'd, and you can
still access it.

                            Linus