On Mon, 08 Sep 2025, Al Viro wrote: > That way xfs hits will be down to that claim_stability() and the obscenity in > trace.h - until the users of the latter get wrapped into something that would > take snapshots and pass those instead of messing with ->d_name. Considering > the fun quoted above, not having to repeat that digging is something I'd > count as a win... > What would you think of providing an accessor function and insisting everyone use it - and have some sort of lockdep_assert_held() to that function so that developers who test their code will see these problem? Then a simple grep can find any unapproved uses. NeilBrown
