-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Did you get a chance to look at the stacks below? Thanks, Ben On 07/31/2014 02:20 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 07/31/2014 01:42 PM, NeilBrown wrote: >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:00:35 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> So, this has been asked all over the interweb for years and years, but the best answer I can find is to reboot the system or create a fake NFS server >>> somewhere with the same IP as the gone-away NFS server. >>> >>> The problem is: >>> >>> I have some mounts to an NFS server that no longer exists (crashed/powered down). >>> >>> I have some processes stuck trying to write to files open on these mounts. >>> >>> I want to kill the process and unmount. >>> >>> umount -l will make the mount go a way, sort of. But process is still hung. umount -f complains: umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: >>> /mnt/foo: device is busy >>> >>> kill -9 does not work on process. > >> Kill -1 should work (since about 2.6.25 or so). > > That is -[ONE], right? Assuming so, it did not work for me. > > Kernel is 3.14.4+, with some of extra patches, but probably nothing that influences this particular behaviour. > > [root@lf1005-14010010 ~]# cat /proc/3805/stack [<ffffffff811371ba>] sleep_on_page+0x9/0xd [<ffffffff8113738e>] wait_on_page_bit+0x71/0x78 > [<ffffffff8113769a>] filemap_fdatawait_range+0xa2/0x16d [<ffffffff8113780e>] filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x3b/0x77 [<ffffffffa0f04734>] > nfs_file_fsync+0x37/0x83 [nfs] [<ffffffff811a8d32>] vfs_fsync_range+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff811a8d4b>] vfs_fsync+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffffa0f05305>] > nfs_file_flush+0x6b/0x6f [nfs] [<ffffffff81183e46>] filp_close+0x3f/0x71 [<ffffffff8119c8ae>] __close_fd+0x80/0x98 [<ffffffff81183de5>] > SyS_close+0x1c/0x3e [<ffffffff815c55f9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff [root@lf1005-14010010 ~]# kill -1 3805 > [root@lf1005-14010010 ~]# cat /proc/3805/stack [<ffffffff811371ba>] sleep_on_page+0x9/0xd [<ffffffff8113738e>] wait_on_page_bit+0x71/0x78 > [<ffffffff8113769a>] filemap_fdatawait_range+0xa2/0x16d [<ffffffff8113780e>] filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x3b/0x77 [<ffffffffa0f04734>] > nfs_file_fsync+0x37/0x83 [nfs] [<ffffffff811a8d32>] vfs_fsync_range+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff811a8d4b>] vfs_fsync+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffffa0f05305>] > nfs_file_flush+0x6b/0x6f [nfs] [<ffffffff81183e46>] filp_close+0x3f/0x71 [<ffffffff8119c8ae>] __close_fd+0x80/0x98 [<ffffffff81183de5>] > SyS_close+0x1c/0x3e [<ffffffff815c55f9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff > > Thanks, Ben > >> If it doesn't please report the kernel version and cat /proc/$PID/stack > >> for some processes that cannot be killed. > >> NeilBrown > >>> >>> >>> Aside from bringing a fake NFS server back up on the same IP, is there any other way to get these mounts unmounted and the processes killed without >>> rebooting? >>> >>> Thanks, Ben >>> > > > > -- 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 > - -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT64dqAAoJELbHqkYeJT4OHC0IAIRB2A8v5msRhXrdd+ybvkwD NcOSYOhSsxCHIS5BR5CNLg89zipRuocVCbdLRdtbse8nspMq8PAiQJt3YOkGwzos ifcsgxouMUKfmLcFHtJ0maIkWMPIrttPvHJuw67gt7LbHLPsFjlrdrKPv6aGa95m 7mCkY/bRniiJYCxrCqixzQpuWfIyVal6FPGtmpydTVh6lq0y05vDEVB8lP5xGyes w+I/vJkGf9ddTIDasYJbLwUXECbN3makJxmHNAZf4slQMB5FNNnpeTOqL17u62cY F/do8m/zxzztibTZqjKHIhHGDw/huTyQWfRsQ0AA9Exu8/RZKhJlL2EeYlFJWJQ= =hNGY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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