Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758283AbXHVJzY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:55:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751372AbXHVJzM (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:55:12 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:36887 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbXHVJzK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:55:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ikAvPY8PJ6waUmEdbbEnEggCff9UFxFRFWj4W68BUKqj 1187776508 Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4: reinstate negatitive timeout of mount fails From: Ian Kent To: ndrew Morton , Peter Staubach Cc: Kernel Mailing List , autofs mailing list In-Reply-To: <46CAF484.80501@redhat.com> References: <1187688369.3318.12.camel@raven.themaw.net> <46CAF484.80501@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:55:03 +0800 Message-Id: <1187776503.3899.16.camel@raven.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3327 Lines: 89 On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:19 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > Ian Kent wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Due to a change to fs/dcache.c:d_lookup() in the 2.6 kernel whereby only > > hashed dentrys are returned the negative caching of mount failures > > stopped working in the autofs4 module for nobrowse mount (ie. directory > > created at mount time and removed at umount or following a mount > > failure). > > > > This patch keeps track of the dentrys from mount fails in order to be > > able check the timeout since the last fail and return the appropriate > > status. In addition the timeout value is settable at load time as a > > module option and via sysfs using the module > > parameter /sys/module/autofs4/parameters/negative_timeout. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent > > > > --- > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/init.c.negative-timeout 2007-07-09 07:32:17.000000000 +0800 > > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/init.c 2007-08-21 15:44:34.000000000 +0800 > > @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ > > #include > > #include "autofs_i.h" > > > > +unsigned int negative_timeout = AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT; > > +module_param(negative_timeout, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); > > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(negative_timeout, "Cache mount fails negatively for this many seconds"); > > + > > static int autofs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, > > int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt) > > { > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/inode.c.negative-timeout 2007-08-17 11:52:33.000000000 +0800 > > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/inode.c 2007-08-21 15:44:34.000000000 +0800 > > @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct autofs_info *autofs4_init_ino(str > > ino->inode = NULL; > > ino->dentry = NULL; > > ino->size = 0; > > + ino->negative_timeout = negative_timeout; > > > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ino->rehash); > > > > @@ -98,11 +99,24 @@ void autofs4_free_ino(struct autofs_info > > static void autofs4_force_release(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi) > > { > > struct dentry *this_parent = sbi->sb->s_root; > > - struct list_head *next; > > + struct list_head *p, *next; > > > > if (!sbi->sb->s_root) > > return; > > > > + /* Cleanup the negative dentry cache */ > > + spin_lock(&sbi->rehash_lock); > > + list_for_each_safe(p, next, &sbi->rehash_list) { > > + struct autofs_info *ino; > > + struct dentry *dentry; > > + ino = list_entry(p, struct autofs_info, rehash); > > + dentry = ino->dentry; > > + spin_unlock(&sbi->rehash_lock); > > + dput(ino->dentry); > > > > Should this be dput(dentry);? Addressed in this simple (first) cleanup patch. Thanks Ian --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/inode.c.negative-timeout-cleanup 2007-08-22 17:46:33.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/autofs4/inode.c 2007-08-22 17:47:02.000000000 +0800 @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ static void autofs4_force_release(struct struct autofs_info *ino; struct dentry *dentry; ino = list_entry(p, struct autofs_info, rehash); - dentry = ino->dentry; spin_unlock(&sbi->rehash_lock); dput(ino->dentry); spin_lock(&sbi->rehash_lock); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/