Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762493AbXJTO4s (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:56:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755546AbXJTO4k (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:56:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57512 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755536AbXJTO4k (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:56:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:56:15 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Hansen Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - autofs broken Message-ID: <20071020105615.3e74c192@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <20071020015445.0c0dcda6@bree.surriel.com> References: <20071011213126.cf92efb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071020011310.30abc16b@bree.surriel.com> <20071019223900.edd04f65.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071020015404.437b6937@bree.surriel.com> <20071020015445.0c0dcda6@bree.surriel.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2360 Lines: 63 On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:54:45 -0400 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:54:04 -0400 > Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:39:00 -0700 > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:13:10 -0400 Rik van Riel > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700 > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/ > > > > > > > > > > - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 > > > > > in an attempt to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge. > > > > > > > > Between rc8-mm2 and 2.6.23-mm1, autofs stopped working in the > > > > -mm kernel. > > > > > > > > Instead of mounting my home directory, I get these messages in > > > > /var/log/messages: > > > > > > > > Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: cache_readlock: mapent > > > > cache rwlock lock failed > > > > Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: unexpected pthreads > > > > error: 11 at 65 in cache.c > > > > > > > > I am not sure if this is due to autofs changes or changes in > > > > some other code that was merged. If you can think of any > > > > suspicious change that I should test, please let me know. > > > > > > I don't think anything changed in autofs in that period. I'd be > > > suspecting the r-o-bind-mounts patches, but they didn't change > > > much in that time either. > > > > > > Does current mainline work OK? If so, pretty much the only thing > > > in that area left unmerged is r-o-bind-mounts and hch's exportfs > > > stuff. > > > > Yes, 2.6.23 mainline works fine. > > Let me clarify: 2.6.23 vanilla works. > > I have not yet tried the latest 2.6.23+ git tree. I just tried it. In the latest git tree, autofs still works. The regression is in -mm only. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/