Page fault on NFS apparently goes into an infinite loop if the read on the server fails. I don't understand the NFS readpage code, but the filemap_fault() code looks somewhat suspicious: /* * Umm, take care of errors if the page isn't up-to-date. * Try to re-read it _once_. We do this synchronously, * because there really aren't any performance issues here * and we need to check for errors. */ ClearPageError(page); error = mapping->a_ops->readpage(file, page); page_cache_release(page); if (!error || error == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) goto retry_find; The comment doesn't seem to match what the it actually does: if ->readpage() is asynchronous, then this will just repeat everything, without any guarantee that it will re-read once. What am I missing? Miklos -- 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
