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Ian Kent 43694d4bf8 autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk"
While commit 092a53452b ("autofs: take more care to not update
last_used on path walk") helped (partially) resolve a problem where
automounts were not expiring due to aggressive accesses from user space
it has a side effect for very large environments.

This change helps with the expire problem by making the expire more
aggressive but, for very large environments, that means more mount
requests from clients.  When there are a lot of clients that can mean
fairly significant server load increases.

It turns out I put the last_used in this position to solve this very
problem and failed to update my own thinking of the autofs expire
policy.  So the patch being reverted introduces a regression which
should be fixed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151174729420.6162.1832622523537052460.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Fixes: 092a53452b ("autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk")
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.11+]
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <oholy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
Documentation Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
arch mm: replace pmd_write with pmd_access_permitted in fault + gup paths 2017-11-29 18:40:42 -08:00
block treewide: setup_timer() -> timer_setup() 2017-11-21 15:57:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-28 16:22:10 -08:00
drivers IB/core: disable memory registration of filesystem-dax vmas 2017-11-29 18:40:42 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk" 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
include mm: migrate: fix an incorrect call of prep_transhuge_page() 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:39:20 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
mm mm, memcg: fix mem_cgroup_swapout() for THPs 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
net Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-25 08:37:16 -10:00
samples kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
scripts scripts/bloat-o-meter: don't fail with division by 0 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
security Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential zero-division at parsing FU" 2017-11-28 09:34:36 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-26 14:11:54 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15 2017-11-24 19:44:25 -10:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS RTC for 4.15 2017-11-22 20:58:23 -10:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc1 2017-11-26 16:01:47 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.