While pidfs dentries are never hashed and thus retain_dentry() will never consider them for placing them on the LRU it isn't great to always have to go and remember that. Raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly as a visual marker that dentries aren't kept but freed immediately instead. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- fs/pidfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/pidfs.c b/fs/pidfs.c index 0ef5b47d796a..db236427fc2c 100644 --- a/fs/pidfs.c +++ b/fs/pidfs.c @@ -1022,6 +1022,7 @@ static int pidfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc) fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NOEXEC; fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NODEV; + ctx->s_d_flags |= DCACHE_DONTCACHE; ctx->ops = &pidfs_sops; ctx->eops = &pidfs_export_operations; ctx->dops = &pidfs_dentry_operations; -- 2.47.3