Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:59 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] autofs4 deadlock during expire - kernel 2.6 |
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:46:43PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > 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?
No... what happens if the person waking you does so inbetween the if ( wq->name ) { test and the interruptible_sleep_on(&wq->queue); .. ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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