Re: [stable PATCH] nfsd: don't try to reuse an expired DRC entry off the list

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On 06/20/2014 08:56 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is commit a0ef5e19684f0447da9ff0654a12019c484f57ca in mainline.
> 
> While the commit message below doesn't lay this out, we've subsequently
> found that there are some cases where an entry that's still in use can
> be freed prematurely if a particular operation takes a *very* long time
> (on the order of minutes) and/or the server is very busy and doesn't
> have a lot of memory dedicated to the DRC. This patch eliminates that
> possibility, so it's actually more than just a cleanup.
> 
> The regression crept in in v3.9, and this patch went into mainline in
> v3.14. Please apply this to any stable kernel between those two
> mainline releases.

Now applied to 3.12. Thanks.


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