Re: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount

[Ian Kent]

Thanks for the description.

I thought it was bad to call a function that could block while
holding a lock. At least I was close to right this time.

I wasn't aware of the badness I'll see what I can find.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Waychison wrote:

>
> Ingo's patch simply moved the allocation outside the spinlock..  See my
> later patch about moving the allocation to and __init section, which is
> probably the cleaner thing to do and doesn't require grabbing the page
> and using it conditionally.
>

Missed that when I returned to it. Found it now.

That is clearly a better way to do it.

I there any chance this would be accepted into 2.6.0?

I think it's quite important, hopefully others do as well.


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