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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index ea0485861d93..97e81a844a96 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -793,10 +793,17 @@ static inline bool fast_dput(struct dentry *dentry) * a reference to the dentry and change that, but * our work is done - we can leave the dentry * around with a zero refcount. + * + * Nevertheless, there are two cases that we should kill + * the dentry anyway. + * 1. free disconnected dentries as soon as their refcount + * reached zero. + * 2. free dentries if they should not be cached. */ smp_rmb(); d_flags = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_flags); - d_flags &= DCACHE_REFERENCED | DCACHE_LRU_LIST | DCACHE_DISCONNECTED; + d_flags &= DCACHE_REFERENCED | DCACHE_LRU_LIST | + DCACHE_DISCONNECTED | DCACHE_DONTCACHE; /* Nothing to do? Dropping the reference was all we needed? */ if (d_flags == (DCACHE_REFERENCED | DCACHE_LRU_LIST) && !d_unhashed(dentry)) |