Re: Regression in Autofs, 2.6.15-git

[Andrew Morton]

"P. Christeas" <p_christ@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I had been testing some other thing in the kernel, when I noticed that the 
> commit (in Linus' tree) given below makes *autofs4* crash.
> It does crash with a hard oops whenever I try to enter a /net/host/... address 
> in konqueror's location bar.
> Is this a known issue or should I provide more information?
> 
> 
> commit fc33a7bb9c6dd8f6e4a014976200f8fdabb3a45c
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jan 9 20:52:17 2006 -0800
> 
>     [PATCH] per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime
> 
>     Turn noatime and nodiratime into per-mount instead of per-sb flags.
> 
>     After all the preparations this is a rather trivial patch.  The mount code
>     needs to treat the two options as per-mount instead of per-superblock, and
>     touch_atime needs to be changed to check the new MNT_ flags in addition to
>     the MS_ flags that are kept for filesystems that are always
>     noatime/nodiratime but not user settable anymore.  Besides that core code
>     only nfs needed an update because it's leaving atime updates to the server
>     and thus sets the S_NOATIME flag on every inode, but needs to know whether
>     it's a real noatime mount for an getattr optimization.
> 
>     While we're at it I've killed the IS_NOATIME/IS_NODIRATIME macros that 
> were
>     only used by touch_atime.

Thanks for working that out.

It works for me.  Are you able to capture the oops output?
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