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>d_invalidate -- invalidate a dentry
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>int <TT
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>(struct dentry * <TT
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> dentry to invalidate
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> Try to invalidate the dentry if it turns out to be
possible. If there are other dentries that can be
reached through this one we can't delete it and we
return -EBUSY. On success we return 0.
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> no dcache lock.
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