From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:41:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012060941.25977.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101206035123.28966.79954.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Monday 06 December 2010 04:51:23 Ian Kent wrote:
> With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the
> ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex
> needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call
> back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion
> status (via another ioctl).
>
> This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same
> code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without
> issue, as was the original intention.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 3:51 [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex Ian Kent
2010-12-06 3:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-06 4:05 ` Ian Kent
2010-12-06 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-12-06 8:41 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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