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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:34:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it should then?
> 
> It doesn't need to. The RCU lookup looks at individual dentry sequence
> numbers and doesn't care about the bigger rename sequence number at
> all.

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