DAOS-14348 client: GC for pil4dfs dentry cache

[knard38]

description

Clean cherry pick of the PR #14995

Hotfix of miscellaneous issues:

• invalid type of atomic_flag
• invalid usage of DL_WARN macro

Required-githooks: true

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[github-actions]

Ticket title is 'pil4dfs dentry caching'
Status is 'Resolved'
Labels: 'intercept_lib'
https://daosio.atlassian.net/browse/DAOS-14348

[daosbuild1]

Test stage NLT on EL 8.8 completed with status UNSTABLE. https://build.hpdd.intel.com/job/daos-stack/job/daos//view/change-requests/job/PR-14996/1/testReport/

[knard38]

Restart unit test to check if NLT error is a real issue.
It seems that NLT was not stable these last times.

[knard38]

@daos-stack/daos-gatekeeper please could you lend this PR with the following message:

• Title: DAOS-14348 client: GC for pil4dfs dentry cache
• Body:

Hotfix of miscellaneous issues:
- invalid type of atomic_flag
- invalid usage of DL_WARN macro

NB: as it is a clean cherry-pick only one approval should be needed.