This first of these patchs is part of my work to change how directory locking is managed. That will involve moving the lock as close as possible to the operation being locked, and using some standard interfaces which combine the lock and the lookup. Then changing the mechanics of taking a lock. nfsd4_list_rec_dir() currenty locks a direct and performs a lookup in a different function to where the lock and lookup results are needed, and does it even when those are not needed at all. So the first patch moves the lock and lookup to where it is needed. The second patch (arguably) improves the calling protocol for nfs4_client_to_reclaim(). If people don't like this second patch I'm happy for it to be dropped. It is the first patch which is particularly important to me. Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 1/2] nfsd: move name lookup out of nfsd4_list_rec_dir() [PATCH 2/2] nfsd: change nfs4_client_to_reclaim() to allocate data
