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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:19:45 +0800
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>,
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CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, Yehuda Saheh <yehuda@newdream.net>,
       Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] autofs4 - update autofs4 to deal with VFS locking
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Ian Kent wrote:
> A change to the VFS path walk locking is needed to resolve an issue
> identified by Sage Weil. This locking change requires significant
> changes to the autofs4 module to allow it to callback to userspace
> without introducing a deadlock.

Oops, meant to say this series is against the current Linus tree and not
  the current mm tree. However, I don't expect there will be differences
in the autofs4 patches.

Ian

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