vfs: remove DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP

The code that relied on that flag was ripped out of btrfs quite some
time ago, and never added back. Josef indicated that he was going to
take a different approach to the problem in btrfs, and that we
could just eliminate this flag.

Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 67ed24ae86b..16d9e8e191e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -4262,16 +4262,7 @@ struct inode *btrfs_lookup_dentry(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (dentry->d_name.len > BTRFS_NAME_LEN)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 
-	if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry))) {
-		memcpy(&location, dentry->d_fsdata, sizeof(struct btrfs_key));
-		kfree(dentry->d_fsdata);
-		dentry->d_fsdata = NULL;
-		/* This thing is hashed, drop it for now */
-		d_drop(dentry);
-	} else {
-		ret = btrfs_inode_by_name(dir, dentry, &location);
-	}
-
+	ret = btrfs_inode_by_name(dir, dentry, &location);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
@@ -4341,11 +4332,6 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct dentry *ret;
 
 	ret = d_splice_alias(btrfs_lookup_dentry(dir, dentry), dentry);
-	if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry))) {
-		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP;
-		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 3a463d0c4fe..1782be3fc3e 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -455,24 +455,6 @@ void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_drop);
 
 /*
- * d_clear_need_lookup - drop a dentry from cache and clear the need lookup flag
- * @dentry: dentry to drop
- *
- * This is called when we do a lookup on a placeholder dentry that needed to be
- * looked up.  The dentry should have been hashed in order for it to be found by
- * the lookup code, but now needs to be unhashed while we do the actual lookup
- * and clear the DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag.
- */
-void d_clear_need_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
-	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	__d_drop(dentry);
-	dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP;
-	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_clear_need_lookup);
-
-/*
  * Finish off a dentry we've decided to kill.
  * dentry->d_lock must be held, returns with it unlocked.
  * If ref is non-zero, then decrement the refcount too.
@@ -565,13 +547,7 @@ repeat:
  	if (d_unhashed(dentry))
 		goto kill_it;
 
-	/*
-	 * If this dentry needs lookup, don't set the referenced flag so that it
-	 * is more likely to be cleaned up by the dcache shrinker in case of
-	 * memory pressure.
-	 */
-	if (!d_need_lookup(dentry))
-		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
+	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REFERENCED;
 	dentry_lru_add(dentry);
 
 	dentry->d_count--;
@@ -1737,13 +1713,6 @@ struct dentry *d_add_ci(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * We are going to instantiate this dentry, unhash it and clear the
-	 * lookup flag so we can do that.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(found)))
-		d_clear_need_lookup(found);
-
-	/*
 	 * Negative dentry: instantiate it unless the inode is a directory and
 	 * already has a dentry.
 	 */
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 35195ff9d19..25a41e02984 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1275,9 +1275,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(struct qstr *name, struct dentry *dir,
 	*need_lookup = false;
 	dentry = d_lookup(dir, name);
 	if (dentry) {
-		if (d_need_lookup(dentry)) {
-			*need_lookup = true;
-		} else if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE) {
+		if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE) {
 			error = d_revalidate(dentry, flags);
 			if (unlikely(error <= 0)) {
 				if (error < 0) {
@@ -1383,8 +1381,6 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
 			return -ECHILD;
 		nd->seq = seq;
 
-		if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry)))
-			goto unlazy;
 		if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE)) {
 			status = d_revalidate(dentry, nd->flags);
 			if (unlikely(status <= 0)) {
@@ -1410,11 +1406,6 @@ unlazy:
 	if (unlikely(!dentry))
 		goto need_lookup;
 
-	if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry))) {
-		dput(dentry);
-		goto need_lookup;
-	}
-
 	if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE) && need_reval)
 		status = d_revalidate(dentry, nd->flags);
 	if (unlikely(status <= 0)) {