Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock

[George Spelvin]

> _What_ "pathname translations"?  Pathname resolution doesn't fall back to
> seq_writelock() at all.

I meant the translation of dentry to pathname that this thread is about.
Apologies for my confusing abbreviation.  Since the reverse translation
(pathname to dentry) is done a level at a time and people understand
that it's not atomic, I agree with Linus that a livelock there is too
remote a possibility to worry about.
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