linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes....

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:53:18 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes....

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 22:00 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: 
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > Please pull from the "bugfixes" branch of the repository at
> >
> >    git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6.git bugfixes
> >
> > This will update the following files through the appended changesets.
> 
> How about the mmap lock order inversion patch?
> 
> That problem is still there and hits immediately after mounting root 
> with a lockdep warning on any lockdep enabled NFS root kernel.

I'd like to see this fixed, but I do not want to jump onto a solution
that changes the behaviour of mmap() w.r.t. revalidation. The current
behaviour dates back at least to 2.3.x if not before.

That's why I'm working slowly on this.

Cheers
  Trond
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