On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Paweł Sikora <pluto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > br_read_lock(vfsmount_lock); The vfsmount_lock is a "local-global" lock, where a read-lock is rather cheap and takes just a per-cpu lock, but the downside is that a write-lock is *very* expensive, and can cause serious trouble. And the write lock is taken by the [un]mount() paths. Do *not* do crazy things. If you do some insane "unmount and remount autofs" on a 1s granularity, you're doing insane things. Why do you have that 1s timeout? Insane. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html