On Wed, 13 Aug 2025, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 12:25:06PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > btrfs/ioctl.c uses a "killable" lock on the directory when creating an > > destroying subvols. overlayfs also does this. > > > > This patch adds dentry_lookup_killable() for these users. > > > > Possibly all dentry_lookup should be killable as there is no down-side, > > but that can come in a later patch. > > Same objections re lookup_flags and it would be better to do that > at the same point where you convert the (btrfs and overlayfs?) callers. >
I had trouble deciding whether it would be better to merge the patches for easy review, or keep them separate in case they needed to go through different trees.. I guess I decided wrongly. NeiBrown
