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dcache: touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()
authorMateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:15:26 +0000 (14:15 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:31:45 +0000 (10:31 +0100)
commitca0d620b0afae20a7bcd5182606eba6860b2dbf2
treeef24db844ba45c81770b3d4a53d0a9177ad3fda4
parent003a6607304dddb314acc475883064feeefbe2e7
dcache: touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()

Rationale is that if the parent dentry is the same and the length is the
same, then you have to be unlucky for the name to not match.

At the same time the dentry was literally just found on the hash, so you
have to be even more unlucky to determine it is unhashed.

While here add commentary while d_unhashed() is necessary. It was
already removed once and brought back in:
2e321806b681b192 ("Revert "vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu"")

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127131526.4137768-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/dcache.c