From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 deadlock during expire - kernel 2.6
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030924171159.A7214@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309242240500.6956-100000@raven.themaw.net>; from raven@themaw.net on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:46:43PM +0800
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:46:43PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> The actual expire really needs to be interrutible.
> I didn't like the idea that the additional waiters would be
> uninterruptible but perhaps I have no choice.
>
> Given that do you think that using an interruptible_sleep_on for the
> expire and a completion for the additional waiters could give an
> acceptable solution?
No...
what happens if the person waking you does so inbetween the
if ( wq->name ) {
test and the
interruptible_sleep_on(&wq->queue);
.. ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-24 16:24 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
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 [this message]
2003-09-24 15:54 ` Mike Waychison
2003-09-25 1:44 ` Ian Kent
2003-09-25 11:59 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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