Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - autofs broken

Andrew Morton
2007-10-20T05:39:39Z

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:13:10 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
> >
> > - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an
> > attempt to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
>
> Between rc8-mm2 and 2.6.23-mm1, autofs stopped working in the
> -mm kernel.
>
> Instead of mounting my home directory, I get these messages in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: cache_readlock: mapent cache
> rwlock lock failed
> Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: unexpected pthreads error: 11 at
> 65 in cache.c
>
> I am not sure if this is due to autofs changes or changes in some other
> code that was merged. If you can think of any suspicious change that
> I should test, please let me know.

I don't think anything changed in autofs in that period. I'd be suspecting
the r-o-bind-mounts patches, but they didn't change much in that time
either.

Does current mainline work OK? If so, pretty much the only thing in that
area left unmerged is r-o-bind-mounts and hch's exportfs stuff.