linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd startup and shutdown

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Message-ID: <20071208140747.GA11675@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:07:47 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NLM: Add lockd reference counting and clean up lockd
	startup and shutdown

> +	mutex_lock(&nlmsvc_mutex);
> +	while (atomic_read(&nlmsvc_ref) != 0) {

might be better to do the refcounting outside the thread and use the
kthread api, which is something we still need to do for lockd anyway.

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