Re: autofs Ooops

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> > Eep.  Be careful about SMP locking issues.
> 
> My impression was that the VFS is still protected by the big lock, at least in
> 2.2.  Are VFS entry points multithreaded?
> 

In 2.3, some of them are (at least "read", "write" and "open" are),
although "lookup" and "d_revalidate" aren't as far as I know.  Linus, is
this correct?  Is there a list somewhere which VFS entry points hold the
kernel lock?

        -hpa