Re: [PATCH] autofs4: deadlock during create

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:11 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 14:31 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:17 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >
> > > > After spending quite a bit of time trying to resolve this on more than
> > > > one occassion, using rather complex and ulgy approaches, it turns out
> > > > that just delaying the hashing of the dentry until the create operation
> > > > work fine.
> > 
> > There seems to be an unexpected problem with the patch after removal of
> > the d_rehash line left in the original by mistake.
> > 
> 
> I see you haven't got to this yet, probably because I used your old
> email address, 

Actually my cursor has advanced that far, but you said it didn't work right
yet.

> so to save hassle, here is the final patch and the
> description.

OK, thanks.

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