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Message-ID: <4ABB39B1.4000905@themaw.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:19:45 +0800
From: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To: Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
Yehuda Saheh <yehuda@...dream.net>,
Jim Garlick <garlick@...l.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking
change
Ian Kent wrote:
> A change to the VFS path walk locking is needed to resolve an issue
> identified by Sage Weil. This locking change requires significant
> changes to the autofs4 module to allow it to callback to userspace
> without introducing a deadlock.
Oops, meant to say this series is against the current Linus tree and not
the current mm tree. However, I don't expect there will be differences
in the autofs4 patches.
Ian
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