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    parallel lookups machinery, part 4 (and last) · d9171b93
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    If we *do* run into an in-lookup match, we need to wait for it to
    cease being in-lookup.  Fortunately, we do have unused space in
    in-lookup dentries - d_lru is never looked at until it stops being
    in-lookup.
    
    So we can stash a pointer to wait_queue_head from stack frame of
    the caller of ->lookup().  Some precautions are needed while
    waiting, but it's not that hard - we do hold a reference to dentry
    we are waiting for, so it can't go away.  If it's found to be
    in-lookup the wait_queue_head is still alive and will remain so
    at least while ->d_lock is held.  Moreover, the condition we
    are waiting for becomes true at the same point where everything
    on that wq gets woken up, so we can just add ourselves to the
    queue once.
    
    d_alloc_parallel() gets a pointer to wait_queue_head_t from its
    caller; lookup_slow() adjusted, d_add_ci() taught to use
    d_alloc_parallel() if the dentry passed to it happens to be
    in-lookup one (i.e. if it's been called from the parallel lookup).
    
    That's pretty much it - all that remains is to switch ->i_mutex
    to rwsem and have lookup_slow() take it shared.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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