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From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: Eugene Loh via DTrace-devel <dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com>
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test: Retry umount if necessary
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:08:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mshcwbrn.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1517ff3b-34e8-3654-a249-ec7164b66cce@oracle.com> (Eugene Loh via DTrace-devel's message of "Tue, 3 Dec 2024 16:06:04 -0500")

On 3 Dec 2024, Eugene Loh via DTrace-devel uttered the following:

> On 12/3/24 15:31, Nick Alcock wrote:
>
>> On 3 Dec 2024, eugene loh said:
>>
>>> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
>>>
>>> The io tests tst.local.sh and tst.wait.sh fail with some frequency,
>>> with error messages like "umount: $iodir: target is busy."
>> Can you just do a umount -l, then? The only caveat is that while this
>> will disconnect the mount from the mount tree immediately, the *actual
>> umount* might happen arbitrarily later -- is that a problem?
>
> Maybe?  In test/triggers/doio.sh, you can see what's going on.  In essence, we want to flush operations out.  A lazy umount might
> not do that?  I'm not sure.

No, it wouldn't. A simple sync should, though: once it returns, the bios
should have got all the way through the stack, IIRC.

-- 
NULL && (void)

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-04  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-03 20:16 [PATCH] test: Retry umount if necessary eugene.loh
2024-12-03 20:31 ` [DTrace-devel] " Nick Alcock
2024-12-03 21:06   ` Eugene Loh
2024-12-04  0:08     ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2025-01-06 20:50 ` Kris Van Hees

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