From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
Yehuda Saheh <yehuda@newdream.net>,
Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking change
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:19:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABB39B1.4000905@themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090924082036.22151.85151.stgit@zeus.themaw.net>
Ian Kent wrote:
> A change to the VFS path walk locking is needed to resolve an issue
> identified by Sage Weil. This locking change requires significant
> changes to the autofs4 module to allow it to callback to userspace
> without introducing a deadlock.
Oops, meant to say this series is against the current Linus tree and not
the current mm tree. However, I don't expect there will be differences
in the autofs4 patches.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 8:21 [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking change Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] Subject: [PATCH] vfs: make real_lookup do dentry revalidation with i_mutex held Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] autofs4 - use macros for active list handling Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] autofs4 - use macros for expiring list Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] autofs4 - use macro for need mount check Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] autofs4 - use autofs_info for pending flag Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:21 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] autofs4 - renamer unhashed to active in autofs4_lookup() Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] autofs4 - cleanup active and expire lookup Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] autofs4 - eliminate d_unhashed in path walk checks Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] autofs4 - rename dentry to active in autofs4_lookup_active() Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] autofs4 - rename dentry to expiring in autofs4_lookup_expiring() Ian Kent
2009-09-24 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] autofs4 - always use lookup for lookup Ian Kent
2009-09-24 9:19 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2009-09-24 16:10 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking change Sage Weil
2009-09-28 7:41 ` Ian Kent
2009-09-28 7:53 ` Ian Kent
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