> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 16:42, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> just tried your preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-pre7-1.patch. I'm
>> using automount (v4) here and am getting this in syslog:
>>
>> Apr 17 22:32:26 steel kernel: lockd[190] exited with
>> preempt_count 1 Apr 17 22:32:26 steel kernel: rpciod[189]
>> exited with preempt_count 1
>>
>> Every time automounter decides to drop an nfs mount. Some time
>> ago i've read on lkml that such kind of messages aren't very
>> good to see, so decided to drop you a note.
> It is most likely caused by nfs neglecting to drop a lock when
> it exits
That would be the BKL. We do it for rpciod, lockd and the lock
reclaimers. AFAIK that should never be a problem.
Cheers,
Trond
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