Re: syscall rmdir hangs with autofs

[Sebastian Hetze <s.hetze@linux-ag.com>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:28:32PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 06:23 PM, Sebastian Hetze wrote:
>>
>>> What's your hardware platform?  EPT/NPT capable?  Host kernel version?
>>>      
>> Intel S5520HC Board with 2 Xeon CPU E5520, HT enabled
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
>> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
>> syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good
>> xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
>> ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow
>> vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
>>
>> (so yes, EPT is available)
>>
>> host kernel is vanilla 2.6.34
>>
>>    
>
> Well, EPT makes it unlikely that there's an mmu bug involved.
>
> Is the guest smp?  Can you try UP?

yes, the guest starts with -smp 6

Since the system is quite busy and the problem occurs only ever two
weeks or so, UP is no option.

>
> Can you try 2.6.32.latest in the guest?

This we can certainly do. Is 2.6.32.16 your recommendation
or will any newer kernel do also?