Re: [PATCH v1 04/12] fsnotify: reduce i_lock hold time in fsnotify_set_children_dentry_flags()

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 03:39, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +       /* Find the dentry for inode - there can only be one */
> +       for_each_alias(alias, inode)
> +               break;
> +       dget(alias);

This is __d_find_dir_alias().

Could add a get_dir_alias() primitive that does the i_lock locking as well?

Thanks,
Miklos