* an AST before calling d_revalidate_it(). The dentry still exists (marked
* INVALID) so d_lookup() matches it, but we have no lock on it (so
* lock_match() fails) and we spin around real_lookup().
+ *
+ * This race doesn't apply to lookups in d_alloc_parallel(), and for
+ * those we want to ensure that only one dentry with a given name is
+ * in ll_lookup_nd() at a time. So allow invalid dentries to match
+ * while d_in_lookup(). We will be called again when the lookup
+ * completes, and can give a different answer then.
*/
static int ll_dcompare(const struct dentry *dentry,
unsigned int len, const char *str,
if (d_mountpoint((struct dentry *)dentry))
return 0;
+ /* ensure exclusion against parallel lookup of the same name */
+ if (d_in_lookup((struct dentry*)dentry))
+ return 0;
+
if (d_lustre_invalid(dentry))
return 1;