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Commit fe15ce44 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin
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fs: change d_delete semantics



Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
parent 5eef7fa9
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