Re: Issues with a rather unusual configured NFS server

["Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

On 09/23/2013 07:41 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 06:58:29PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> On 09/10/2013 04:09 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:44:00PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>>>> Today I run latest git tree with a patched UML (this patch + one for xterm issues) and got 2 times a core dump
>>>> when I fuzzy test an UML machine with a nearly identical scenario as already described but just shutdowned
>>>> both UML images instead of shooting one of it in the head.
>>>
>>> This is a slightly different test case, so for now it sounds like this
>>> could be a preexisting problem, not a regression?
>>>
>> Yes, pre-existing. I'm trying to bisect it, the issue is already in 7d3107d.
>>
>> But every attempt to get the first bad commit before that commit id
>> failed till now. I started many attempts between v3.10 and 7d3107d. I
>> could not reproduce that issue 100% in that interval. In that interval
>> either all tested commits doesn't show the issue or the NFS client hangs
>> during the stop of NFS service infinitely - and counting that as a "bad"
>> commit doesn't work.
>>
>> FWIW a single test case currently takes 2 1/2 hour and even then I do
>> not fully trust the result  (except for a bad commit, that's clear.
> 
> Well, we should figure out some other way to narrow down the problem....
> 
> I was trying to at least work out where exactly this crash was, but I
> don't have a commit 768c9d3.
> 
> --b.
> 

just for completeness of this thread, that issue could be bisected in
the mean while :

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1569818

>>
>>
>>> --b.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll probably need time to figure out a test case, but just as a pre-info here's the back trace:
>>>>
>>>> tfoerste@n22 ~ $ gdb --core=/mnt/ramdisk/core /usr/local/bin/linux-v3.11-7550-g768c9d3 -n -batch -ex bt
>>>>
>>>> warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
>>>> [New LWP 7470]
>>>> [New LWP 7479]
>>>> [New LWP 7477]
>>>> [New LWP 7478]
>>>> Core was generated by `/usr/local/bin/linux-v3.11-7550-g768c9d3 earlyprintk ubda=/home/tfoerste/virtua'.
>>>> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
>>>> #0  0xb77be424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
>>>> #0  0xb77be424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
>>>> #1  0x083aada5 in kill ()
>>>> #2  0x0807163d in uml_abort () at arch/um/os-Linux/util.c:93
>>>> #3  0x08071925 in os_dump_core () at arch/um/os-Linux/util.c:138
>>>> #4  0x080613a7 in panic_exit (self=0x85b1518 <panic_exit_notifier>, unused1=0, unused2=0x85e76e0 <buf.15920>) at arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c:240
>>>> #5  0x0809a398 in notifier_call_chain (nl=0x0, val=0, v=0x85e76e0 <buf.15920>, nr_to_call=-2, nr_calls=0x0) at kernel/notifier.c:93
>>>> #6  0x0809a4e3 in __atomic_notifier_call_chain (nr_calls=<optimized out>, nr_to_call=<optimized out>, v=<optimized out>, val=<optimized out>, nh=<optimized out>) at kernel/notifier.c:182
>>>> #7  atomic_notifier_call_chain (nh=0x85e76c4 <panic_notifier_list>, val=0, v=0x85e76e0 <buf.15920>) at kernel/notifier.c:191
>>>> #8  0x08408628 in panic (fmt=0x0) at kernel/panic.c:128
>>>> #9  0x081131c9 in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree (dentry=0x428028f0) at fs/dcache.c:941
>>>> #10 0x08113948 in shrink_dcache_for_umount (sb=0x463b8000) at fs/dcache.c:1002
>>>> #11 0x08101677 in generic_shutdown_super (sb=0x463b8000) at fs/super.c:404
>>>> #12 0x08102395 in kill_anon_super (sb=0x0) at fs/super.c:875
>>>> #13 0x081d3ff8 in nfs_kill_super (s=0x0) at fs/nfs/super.c:2598
>>>> #14 0x0810153a in deactivate_locked_super (s=0x463b8000) at fs/super.c:294
>>>> #15 0x081015d1 in deactivate_super (s=0x463b8000) at fs/super.c:319
>>>> #16 0x08119c0c in mntfree (mnt=<optimized out>) at fs/namespace.c:891
>>>> #17 mntput_no_expire (mnt=0x0) at fs/namespace.c:929
>>>> #18 0x0811b195 in SYSC_umount (flags=<optimized out>, name=<optimized out>) at fs/namespace.c:1335
>>>> #19 SyS_umount (name=134633856, flags=2) at fs/namespace.c:1305
>>>> #20 0x080618e2 in handle_syscall (r=0x498be5d4) at arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c:35
>>>> #21 0x08073c0d in handle_trap (local_using_sysemu=<optimized out>, regs=<optimized out>, pid=<optimized out>) at arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c:198
>>>> #22 userspace (regs=0x498be5d4) at arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c:431
>>>> #23 0x0805e65c in fork_handler () at arch/um/kernel/process.c:160
>>>> #24 0x00000000 in ?? ()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> MfG/Sincerely
>>>> Toralf Förster
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>>>
>>
>>
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