> -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Lever [mailto:chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:19 PM > To: Myklebust, Trond > Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List > Subject: Re: Empty core dumps on NFSv4 mounts > > > On Dec 5, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > > > No. There have been no kernel idmapper changes since then. > > > > The correct thing to do here is to cache the string name in struct > > nfs_fattr, and then do the upcall from the caller of OPEN. I believe > > that Arnaud wrote a patch to do this, however the whole pNFS merge got > > in my way of reviewing this. Feel free to take a look at what he did, > > and post comments... > > We're looking at his patch, from July 2010, now. It calls kmalloc() in the XDR > decoder. Is there a newer version? Not as far as I know, and I agree that calling kmalloc in the XDR is a problem... If, however, we can accept that it will occasionally fail, then perhaps kmalloc(GFP_NOWAIT) might be acceptable? Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
