Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - autofs broken

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:54:45 -0400
Rik van Riel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:54:04 -0400
> Rik van Riel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:39:00 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:13:10 -0400 Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> > > > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> 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.

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