Commit 77862036 authored by Neil Brown's avatar Neil Brown Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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sunrpc/cache: make cache flushing more reliable.

The caches used to store sunrpc authentication information can be
flushed by writing a timestamp to a file in /proc.

This timestamp has a one-second resolution and any entry in cache that
was last_refreshed *before* that time is treated as expired.

This is problematic as it is not possible to reliably flush the cache
without interrupting NFS service.
If the current time is written to the "flush" file, any entry that was
added since the current second started will still be treated as valid.
If one second beyond than the current time is written to the file
then no entries can be valid until the second ticks over.  This will
mean that no NFS request will be handled for up to 1 second.

To resolve this issue we make two changes:

1/ treat an entry as expired if the timestamp when it was last_refreshed
  is before *or the same as* the expiry time.  This means that current
  code which writes out the current time will now flush the cache
  reliably.

2/ when a ...
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