I'm seeing this too. I am able to mount without a problem and the hang occurs during unmount. -Bryan On 08/25/2010 02:32 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 04:34 +0200, ext J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> As of 253c34e9b10c30d3064be654b5b78fbc1a8b1896 "writeback: prevent >> unnecessary bdi threads wakeups", any nfs mount hangs for me. Is this a >> known issue? >> >> --b. >> >> INFO: task mount.nfs4:3812 blocked for more than 120 seconds. >> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. >> mount.nfs4 D 0000000000000000 2880 3812 3811 0x00000000 >> ffff88001ed25a28 0000000000000046 ffff88001ed25fd8 ffff88001ed25fd8 >> ffff88001ed24000 ffff88001ed24000 ffff88001ed24000 ffff88001f9503a0 >> ffff88001ed25fd8 ffff88001f9503a8 ffff88001ed24000 ffff88001ed25fd8 >> Call Trace: >> [<ffffffff819608dd>] schedule_timeout+0x1cd/0x2e0 >> [<ffffffff8106a23c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x6c/0xa0 >> [<ffffffff81963970>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60 >> [<ffffffff8106a51d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x14d/0x190 >> [<ffffffff819671fe>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xe/0xd0 >> [<ffffffff8195fc50>] wait_for_common+0x120/0x190 >> [<ffffffff81033bb0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 >> [<ffffffff8195fd9d>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20 >> [<ffffffff8105951a>] kthread_stop+0x4a/0x150 >> [<ffffffff81061980>] ? thaw_process+0x70/0x80 >> [<ffffffff810cc5aa>] bdi_unregister+0x10a/0x1a0 >> [<ffffffff81229cd9>] nfs_put_super+0x19/0x20 >> [<ffffffff810ee7d4>] generic_shutdown_super+0x54/0xe0 >> [<ffffffff810ee8c6>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60 >> [<ffffffff8122d2c9>] nfs4_kill_super+0x39/0x90 >> [<ffffffff810ed955>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60 >> [<ffffffff810edec9>] deactivate_super+0x49/0x70 >> [<ffffffff811081a4>] mntput_no_expire+0x84/0xe0 >> [<ffffffff811083ff>] release_mounts+0x9f/0xc0 >> [<ffffffff81108485>] put_mnt_ns+0x65/0x80 >> [<ffffffff8122cb66>] nfs_follow_remote_path+0x1e6/0x420 >> [<ffffffff8122cecf>] nfs4_try_mount+0x6f/0xd0 >> [<ffffffff8122cfd2>] nfs4_get_sb+0xa2/0x360 >> [<ffffffff810edbc8>] vfs_kern_mount+0x88/0x1f0 >> [<ffffffff810edda2>] do_kern_mount+0x52/0x130 >> [<ffffffff81963d6a>] ? _lock_kernel+0x6a/0x170 >> [<ffffffff81108dae>] do_mount+0x26e/0x7f0 >> [<ffffffff81106a4a>] ? copy_mount_options+0xea/0x190 >> [<ffffffff811093c8>] sys_mount+0x98/0xf0 >> [<ffffffff810024d8>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b >> 1 lock held by mount.nfs4/3812: >> #0: (&type->s_umount_key#24){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff810edec1>] deactivate_super+0x41/0x70 > > I've tried both v2.6.36-rc2 and commit > 253c34e9b10c30d3064be654b5b78fbc1a8b1896 [1] - and I can mount an NFS > share with no problems: > > sudo mount -t nfs4 sauron:/home/dedekind/ /mnt/sauron_home/ > > works fine. Any hints about how to reproduce this are welcome. > > I'll try to look at the code and figure out why this could happen. > > So, does the mount at some point succeed? Or it is blocked forever? And > sysrq-t output would be useful to look at as well. > > Also, it is strange that 'sys_mount()' involves 'nfs4_kill_super()' - is > this normal or this is an error path? > > [1]: the kernel tree does not compile on this commit, and I applied > patch on top to solve the compilation issue: > 387ac089361fbe5ef287e6950c5c40f6b18e5c55 "block: fix missing export of > blk_types.h" > -- 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