I've released it for two main reasons
1. Instead of backing out the NFS changes as Linus wants to do with
2.1.118 I want to find the real bug people are seeing with hangs
and to prove signal blocking is working properly
So if you have seen NFS problems in 2.1.117 please try and replicate
then with this patch.
When an RPC is interrupted by a signal (this should be kill -9 only
or ^C ^\ or kill -9 if its mounted "intr") the kernel will dump
a logging entry like this
RPC terminated by signal
RPC process was cp (pid 665)
RPC signal block is FFFFFEF9 pending = 2
If Linus theory is right people with the mysterious failures and
hangs will see something similar when the hang/fail in emacs etc
occurs. The dump from that will let me see whats up. With that I
can fix the real bug properly.
I've also included Linus rpciod race fix (the autofs hang people
reported an Ion pinned down) so as to avoid that being confused
with it.
2. Its got the latest video4linux code. In paticular it has the
bttv driver merge. All I can say about that is "it compiles" as
I won't have a setup to test it with until about the 26th.
Happy testing. Especially on the NFS one.
Alan
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