For a really long time (years?) if you forced NFS v4 only, you could
mask a lot of unnecessary services.
In /etc/nfs.conf, in "[nfsd] I've been able to set "vers3=n", and then
mask the following services:
* gssproxy
* nfs-blkmap
* rpc-statd
* rpcbind (service & socket)
Upgrading from 5.2.14 to 5.3.0, nfs-server.service (rpc.nfsd) has
exactly a 5 minute delay, and sometimes longer.
nfs-utils 2.4.1 (latest). Downgrading only linux back to 5.2.14 makes
it work again.
Unmasking the above services/socket is a temporary workaround.
I'll mention I do include "ipv6.disable=1" in my kernel arguments,
since I see in strace it attempts using IPV6 and fails right after the
hang. Don't think that's related, but just in case.
ALL DIAGNOSTICS BELOW are with everything commented in "/etc/exports",
because it reproduces the problem as well. They are also with
everything commented in "/etc/nfs.conf" except for in "[nfsd]"
"vers3=n".
In IRC, bcodding said he's been looking at a similar bug, but that
probably isn't exactly like mine. Potentially having to do with
changes of handling of ENOTCON and EAGAIN in net/sunrpc/clnt.c, not
sure if that refers to mine or his.
The default nfs.conf includes "[nfsd]... # debug=0" which sort of
suggests to get debugging information to set "debug=1". But, doing
this gave "rpc.nfsd: Invalid debug facility: 1". I also tried
"debug=0x7FFF" from debug.h for NFSDDBG_ALL, but it doesn't like that
either. "man rpc.nfsd" shows the --debug option. I disabled
nfs-server.service and rebooted to manually start it with this option,
and it gave a whopping 3 lines at start, and nothing during or after
the 5 minute delay:
=====
rpc.nfsd: knfsd is currently down
rpc.nfsd: Writing version string to kernel: -2 -3
rpc.nfsd: Created AF_INET TCP socket.
=====
The first time I ran strace, it goes into uninterruptible sleep and shows:
=====
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/fs/nfsd/versions", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, <<the massive delay is here>>"-2 -3 +4 +4.1 +4.2\n", 128) = 19
=====
After re-running it after speaking with bcodding, strace showed:
=====
bind(4, (sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(2049),
sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")), 16) = 0
listen(4, 64) = 0
write(3 "4\n", 2<<the massive delay is here>>) = 2
=====
Not sure why the change in the strace hang spot.
After speaking with bcodding, he gave me a list of events to set,
visible here: http://ix.io/1nTX
I ran "strace rpc.nfsd --debug &> log" (so the strace and the --debug
is mixed) which is viewable here: http://ix.io/1o2s
And, the contents of /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace after it finally
completed was 143MB, compared to 5.2.14's 17K! This trace including
the first and last 1000 lines, skipping the hundreds of thousands of
lines between so it's only 325K is viewable here: http://ix.io/1o2y
This trace only goes from kernel time 990.504680 to 995.938377. I
think it must have hit a maximum MB or number of lines, because it
didn't come out of that for for 5 minutes.
He also asked to see the trace of it working (which I hope meant on
5.2.14, rather than with services unmasked.)
The 5.2.14 working strace with --debug is viewable here: http://ix.io/1o8V
And the 5.2.14 working trace is viewable here: http://ix.io/1ofY
