Name

d_backing_dentry — Get upper or lower dentry we should be using

Synopsis

struct dentry * d_backing_dentry (struct dentry * upper);
 

Arguments

struct dentry * upper

The upper layer

Description

This is the helper that should be used to get the dentry of the inode that will be used if this dentry were opened as a file. It may be the upper dentry or it may be a lower dentry pinned by the upper.

Normal filesystems should not use this to access their own dentries.