[PATCH 0/3] [RFC] knfsd: convert to kthread API and remove signaling for shutdown

[Greg Banks]

Neil Brown wrote:

>  
> +static ssize_t write_ports(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
> +{
> +	ssize_t rv;
> +	mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> +	rv = __write_ports(file, buf, size);
> +	mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
> +	return rv;
> +}
>   
Oooh, much better.  I was foolishly trying to fix all the lock_kernels()
in the original write_ports().

There are some comments in net/sunrpc/svc.c referring to callers needing
to own the BKL, which will need updating also. Otherwise, looks good :-)
Perhaps the trouble I was having was in the older codebase only, or
because I didn't pull the locking out far enough.

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