Re: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount

[Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:12, Mike Waychison wrote:
> The problem still remains in 2.6 that we limit the count to 256.  I've
> attached a quick patch that I've compiled and tested.  I don't know if
> there is a better way to handle dynamic assignment of minors (haven't
> kept up to date in that realm), but if there is, then we should probably
>   use it instead.


In your patch you allocate inside the spinlock.

I would suggest to do sth. like the following:

void *local;
if (!unamed_dev_inuse) {
    local = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);

    if (!local) 
        return -ENOMEM;
}

spinlock(&unamed_dev_lock);
mb();
if (!unamed_dev_inuse) {
    unamed_dev_inuse = local;

    /* Used globally, don't free now */
    local = NULL;
}

/* 
  Do the lookup and alloc
 */

spinunlock(&unamed_dev_lock);

/* Free page, because of race on allocation. */
if (local) 
    free_page(local);


Which will swap the pointers atomically and still alloc outside the
non-sleeping locking.


Regards

Ingo Oeser