Re: autofs4 hang in 2.6.37-rc1

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 04:40:40 EST


On 11/15/2010 03:31 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> If the ioctl can sleep for multiple seconds, the mutex should
> indeed be dropped, and that would be safe because we used to
> do the same with the BKL.
>
> The question is why this would sleep for more than 120 seconds.

umount against a server that isn't responding can easily take more than
2 minutes.

Well, in my setup, the server should be responding.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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