__d_drop — drop a dentry
void __d_drop ( | struct dentry * | dentry); |
d_drop unhashes the entry from the parent dentry hashes, so that it won't
be found through a VFS lookup any more. Note that this is different from
deleting the dentry - d_delete will try to mark the dentry negative if
possible, giving a successful _negative_ lookup, while d_drop will
just make the cache lookup fail.
d_drop is used mainly for stuff that wants to invalidate a dentry for some
reason (NFS timeouts or autofs deletes).
__d_drop requires dentry->d_lock.