Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Marko Rauhamaa > <marko.rauhamaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We have run into an easily reproducible fanotify hang that affects >> several distros as well as the latest development kernel. (It isn't >> fixed by Amir Goldstein's recent fanotify patch, BTW.) > > Not sure what is the role that autofs is playing in this hang, but it > is worth checking if Jan's latest work fixes the problem. I estimate > that it should, because it isolated the user space handling of > permission events from affecting processes generating fsnotify events > on other fs objects. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git #for_testing I could try. >> 4. Observe the last command hang. While it is hung, other file system >> operations from other processes are blocked. > > You mean other processes not trying to access objects under the > watched mounts. right? No, accessing the watched mounts. Don't know if the hang is limited to them. Marko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
