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 <[email protected]>
> >
> > ---
> > --- 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 <linux/init.h>
> > #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);
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