On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:58:34 +1100 Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question is: *why* cannot rpc_shutdown_client complete until all > active rpc_tasks complete? The use of reference counting ensure that > once they do all complete, the client will be finally released and any > relevant modules will also be released. > > Is there really any need to wait for completion? > I can't speak for all uses of rpc_shutdown_client, but the fix I sent up recently for the use after free when taking down lockd depends on this. If we change the semantics of rpc_shutdown_client this way then we'll need to fix that in some other way. I need to know that when I'm taking down lockd that all of the grant callbacks in the RPC queue are completely dead. -- Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
