On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:48:32AM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > >> The pid of the locking daemon can be substituted with a task struct > >> without a problem. Namely, the value if filled in the context of the lockd > >> thread and used in lockd_up/lockd_down. > >> > >> It is possible to save task struct instead and use it to kill the process. > >> The safety of this operation is guaranteed by the RCU, i.e. task can't > >> disappear without passing a quiscent state. > > > > We have a patch series pending on the nfs list that does this plus a lot > > more in the area. > > > > > where can I have to look them? :)
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