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diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b815a4d..11de7c3 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -735,6 +735,11 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
return err;
}
+ /*
+ * Rename seqlock is not required here because in the off chance
+ * of a false negative due to a concurrent rename, we're going to
+ * do the non-racy lookup, below.
+ */
dentry = __d_lookup(nd->path.dentry, name);
if (!dentry)
goto need_lookup;
@@ -754,17 +759,13 @@ need_lookup:
mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
/*
* First re-do the cached lookup just in case it was created
- * while we waited for the directory semaphore..
- *
- * FIXME! This could use version numbering or similar to
- * avoid unnecessary cache lookups.
- *
- * The "dcache_lock" is purely to protect the RCU list walker
- * from concurrent renames at this point (we mustn't get false
- * negatives from the RCU list walk here, unlike the optimistic
- * fast walk).
+ * while we waited for the directory semaphore, or the first
+ * lookup failed due to an unrelated rename.
*
- * so doing d_lookup() (with seqlock), instead of lockfree __d_lookup
+ * This could use version numbering or similar to avoid unnecessary
+ * cache lookups, but then we'd have to do the first lookup in the
+ * non-racy way. However in the common case here, everything should
+ * be hot in cache, so would it be a big win?
*/
dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
if (likely(!dentry)) {
@@ -1136,13 +1137,12 @@ static struct dentry *__lookup_hash(struct qstr *name,
goto out;
}
- dentry = __d_lookup(base, name);
-
- /* lockess __d_lookup may fail due to concurrent d_move()
- * in some unrelated directory, so try with d_lookup
+ /*
+ * Don't bother with __d_lookup: callers are for creat as
+ * well as unlink, so a lot of the time it would cost
+ * a double lookup.
*/
- if (!dentry)
- dentry = d_lookup(base, name);
+ dentry = d_lookup(base, name);
if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);
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