Marcin Kowalski <kowalski@datrix.co.za> writes:
> Hi
>
> Regarding the patch ....
>
> I don't have experience with the linux kernel internals but could this patch
> not lead to a run-loop condition as the only thing that can break our of the
> for(;;) loop is the tmp==&dentry_unused statement. So if the required number
> of dentries does not exist and this condition is not satisfied we would have
> an infinate loop... sorry if this is a silly question.
AFAICT no because of the list_del_init(tmp) call :
When the list will be empty,
tmp will be equal to dentry_unused.prev (this is a circular list).
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