linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount

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Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:21:14 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	npiggin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 07:07 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:20PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > It does now but it doesn't do a whole lot, just checks for a negative
> > dentry, returning false, and drops out of RCU mode when the dentry isn't
> > selected or being checked for expiry yet.
> 
> Er?  Where does ->d_revalidate() exist in fs/autofs4?  Mainline doesn't
> have anything of that kind...

snip ...

> 
> OK, now I'm really confused.  Where does your tree live?

It's a working tree.

I can update my autofs4 tree on kernel.org with the changes that I think
are actually needed so far. Even then I'm still not sure that revalidate
will be needed.

Ian


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