Re: Killing process in D state on mount to dead NFS server.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

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On 07/31/2014 01:42 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:00:35 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 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
>> 
> 


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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