linux-kernel - Re: [autofs] [PATCH] autofs4: deadlock during create

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:43 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	autofs mailing list <autofs@...ux.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [autofs] [PATCH] autofs4: deadlock during create

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:17 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> writes:
> >
> > After spending quite a bit of time trying to resolve this on more than
> > one occassion, using rather complex and ulgy approaches, it turns out
> > that just delaying the hashing of the dentry until the create operation
> > work fine.

There seems to be an unexpected problem with the patch after removal of
the d_rehash line left in the original by mistake.

I'm working on it.
Sorry all.

Ian


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