Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS lockingchange

From: Ian Kent
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 05:20:03 EST


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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