[PATCH 4/5] knfsd: convert knfsd to kthread API

J. Bruce Fields bfields at fieldses.org
Fri Jun 6 14:16:12 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:11:16PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> I think I've goofed this part, actually. I was thinking that we didn't
> need to bump the refcount here, and that the kernel would realize that
> nfsd() hadn't returned and would prevent unloading until it had. This
> doesn't seem to be the case. I'll need to go back and add refcounting
> back in.

OK.  If you decide it is needed here, could you double-check the lockd
conversion as well?  Looks like some refcounting logic might have gotten
lost there too.

--b.


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