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

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Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:03:37 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes....

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 01:45 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: 
> > If that is ok, then why do the revalidate at all? Just do the open/close 
> > consistency and validate at open time, not mmap time.
> 
> That's exactly what my patch does :)

Actually, it doesn't....

It does remove the validation at mmap time, but it adds nothing at open
time to ensure that we call nfs_revalidate_mapping().

...and as I said, it breaks 'noac'.

Trond
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