linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-mm1

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Message-Id: <20071019223900.edd04f65.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:39:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - autofs broken

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

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-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.

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