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There are 4 callers; two proceed to check if result is positive and fail with ENOENT if it isn't; one (in handle_lookup_down()) is guaranteed to yield positive and one (in lookup_fast()) is _preceded_ by positivity check. However, follow_managed() on a negative dentry is a (fairly cheap) no-op on anything other than autofs. And negative autofs dentries are never hashed, so lookup_fast() is not going to run into one of those. Moreover, successful follow_managed() on a _positive_ dentry never yields a negative one (and we significantly rely upon that in callers of lookup_fast()). In other words, we can easily transpose the positivity check and the call of follow_managed() in lookup_fast(). And that allows to fold the positivity check *into* follow_managed(), simplifying life for the code downstream of its calls. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.