Re: [PATCH 0/5] RCU-walk support for autofs

From: Ian Kent
Date: Mon Aug 18 2014 - 04:26:07 EST


On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 16:33 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> Have you had a chance to run your tests in these patches yet?
> I've done what testing I can think of and cannot fault them.

I haven't, I've been plagued with illness so I'm not getting nearly
enough done. I'll try to put a kernel together and run the test in the
next week or so.

>
> This set is against 3.17-rc1 and make use of the new -EISDIR handling
> for d_manage() and assumes the other patches which already went in
> through Andrew Morton.
>
> I've added a section to autofs4.txt about mount namespaces, but it is
> otherwise unchanged.
>
> If I could get an {Acked,Reviewed,Tested}-By in the next few weeks so
> I can send them on to Andrew I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
>
>
> ---
>
> NeilBrown (5):
> autofs4: allow RCU-walk to walk through autofs4.
> autofs4: factor should_expire() out of autofs4_expire_indirect.
> autofs4: avoid taking fs_lock during rcu-walk
> autofs4: d_manage() should return -EISDIR when appropriate in rcu-walk mode.
> autofs: the documentation I wanted to read
>
>
> Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt | 520 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 6
> fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 2
> fs/autofs4/expire.c | 200 ++++++++-----
> fs/autofs4/root.c | 62 +++-
> 5 files changed, 694 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
>


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