Hi ppl, any news about this problem? :) Thanks. 2009/8/27 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:54 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:38 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Ian Kent wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ian Kent wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Carlos André wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Ian, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks for patch and sorry for delay (i'm expecting receive u >>>>>>>> reply on >>>>>>>> bug track, not here) :) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But, this patch doesnt worked to me like expected... :( >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Firstly I've changed "#MOUNT_WAIT=-1" to "MOUNT_WAIT=10" >>>>>>>> and later changed "10" to "2" with same results... >>>>>>>> (always restarting service, of course :) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Then, tried remove "sec=krb5p", and later removed "nfs4" but i got >>>>>>>> same results again. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Or i'm doing something wrong? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [root@KSTATION areas]# automount -V >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Linux automount version 5.0.1-0.rc2.131.bz517349.1 >>>>>>>> [...] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [root@KSTATION areas]# time ls -la testdown >>>>>>>> ls: testedown: No such file or directory >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> real 3m9.006s >>>>>>>> user 0m0.002s >>>>>>>> sys 0m0.000s >>>>>>> >>>>>>> OK, that isn't behaving the way I expect, I'll have a look. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> LOGGING: >>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> Aug 24 09:23:51 KSTATION automount[20803]: mount_mount: >>>>>>>> mount(nfs): >>>>>>>> calling mount -t nfs4 -s -o rw,acl,sec=krb5p 1.2.3.4:/areas/ >>>>>>>> testdown >>>>>>>> /misc/areas/testdown >>>>>>>> Aug 24 09:27:00 KSTATION automount[20803]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount >>>>>>>> failure 1.2.3.4:/areas/testdown on /misc/areas/testdown >>>>>>>> Aug 24 09:27:00 KSTATION automount[20803]: ioctl_send_fail: token >>>>>>>> = 91 >>>>>>>> Aug 24 09:27:00 KSTATION automount[20803]: failed to mount /misc/ >>>>>>>> areas/testdown >>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> Having a look at this I suspect the reason it doesn't work as >>>>>> expected >>>>>> is the waitpid(2) we do after sending the TERM signal to the mount >>>>>> process (which we have to do) is not returning. This is likely >>>>>> because >>>>>> the mount process isn't giving up in a shorter time as it used to. >>>>> >>>>> You're thinking maybe mount(2) should be as interruptible as the >>>>> socket calls that the mount command used to do? That might be >>>>> reasonable, and I can take a look at that. >>>> >>>> In recent kernels, all those RPC calls should be using TASK_KILLABLE >>>> sleep states. SIGTERM should cause them to abort, provided that some >>>> process isn't blocking it. >>>> >>>> Perhaps TASK_KILLABLE could be backported to RHEL-5? >>> >>> That's pretty extensive, with hooks in the page cache. I doubt RH >>> would go for that. >> >> You don't have to add the hooks in the page cache in order to make mount >> interruptible. You just need to replace the sigmask-manipulation in >> net/sunrpc and fs/nfs (a.k.a. rpc_clnt_sigmask()/rpc_clnt_sigunmask()) >> with TASK_KILLABLE. > > That sounds like a schlep. > >> Alternatively, it might suffice to just turn on the 'intr' flag >> temporarily while doing the mount path walk, and then switch it to >> whatever default the user actually specified afterwards. > > That sounds easy, especially for an EL5 kernel. Maybe "soft" too for the > first few requests? > > -- > Chuck Lever > chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com > > > > -- Atenciosamente, Carlos André LPIC-1 / LPIC-2 / CCNA / CCNP candrecn.at.gmail.dot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html