Re: [PATCH] autofs4 deadlock during expire - kernel 2.6

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:38:16PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > interruptible_sleep_on ?
> > > 
> > 
> > OK so maybe I should have suggestions instead of comments.
> 
> instead of interruptible_sleep_on(), it looks like you really want
> to use completions for this code..
> see kernel/workqueue.c for how those are used
> 

I did try that but thinking again ...

The actual expire really needs to be interrutible.
I didn't like the idea that the additional waiters would be 
uninterruptible but perhaps I have no choice.

Given that do you think that using an interruptible_sleep_on for the 
expire and a completion for the additional waiters could give an 
acceptable solution?

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