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fast_dput(): having ->d_delete() is not reason to delay refcount decrement
->d_delete() is a way for filesystem to tell that dentry is not worth
keeping cached. It is not guaranteed to be called every time a dentry
has refcount drop down to zero; it is not guaranteed to be called before
dentry gets evicted. In other words, it is not suitable for any kind
of keeping track of dentry state.
None of the in-tree filesystems attempt to use it that way, fortunately.
So the contortions done by fast_dput() (as well as dentry_kill()) are
not warranted. fast_dput() certainly should treat having ->d_delete()
instance as "can't assume we'll be keeping it", but that's not different
from the way we treat e.g. DCACHE_DONTCACHE (which is rather similar
to making ->d_delete() returns true when called).
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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