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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
	autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 deadlock during expire - kernel 2.6
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:09:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064408962.5074.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309242059120.4975-100000@raven.themaw.net>

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On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:01, Ian Kent wrote:
> This is a corrected patch for the autofs4 daedlock problem I posted about 
> @@ -206,6 +207,11 @@
>  
>  		interruptible_sleep_on(&wq->queue);
>  
> +		if (waitqueue_active(&wq->queue) && current != wq->owner) {
> +			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +			schedule_timeout(wq->wait_ctr * (HZ/10));
> +		}
> +

this really really looks like you're trying to pamper over a bug by
changing the timing somewhere instead of fixing it...

also are you sure the deadlock isn't because of the racey use of
interruptible_sleep_on ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-24 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-24 13:01 [PATCH] autofs4 deadlock during expire - kernel 2.6 Ian Kent
2003-09-24 13:09 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-09-24 13:38   ` Ian Kent
2003-09-24 13:57     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-24 14:46       ` Ian Kent
2003-09-24 15:11         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-24 15:54     ` Mike Waychison
2003-09-25  1:44       ` Ian Kent
2003-09-25 11:59         ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
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2003-09-23 13:47 Ian Kent
2003-09-23 15:31 ` Mike Waychison
2003-09-23 16:24   ` Ian Kent

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