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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>,
	"chuck.lever@oracle.com" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	"zhitao.li@smartx.com" <zhitao.li@smartx.com>,
	 "tom@talpey.com" <tom@talpey.com>,
	"anna@kernel.org" <anna@kernel.org>,
	"Dai.Ngo@oracle.com" <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>,
	"neilb@suse.de" <neilb@suse.de>,
	"kolga@netapp.com" <kolga@netapp.com>
Cc: "huangping@smartx.com" <huangping@smartx.com>,
	 "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: NFS client IO fails with ERESTARTSYS when another mount point with the same export is unmounted with force [NFS] [SUNRPC]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:05:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179779e2f74e3e5cb2be30cf89e6362aaab706d.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77a58302766cb6c8fac45682ede63569df80cd5d.camel@hammerspace.com>

On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 13:48 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 16:20 +0800, Zhitao Li wrote:
> > [You don't often get email from zhitao.li@smartx.com. Learn why this
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> > 
> > Hi, everyone,
> > 
> > - Facts:
> > I have a remote NFS export and I mount the same export on two
> > different directories in my OS with the same options. There is an
> > inflight IO under one mounted directory. And then I unmount another
> > mounted directory with force. The inflight IO ends up with "Unknown
> > error 512", which is ERESTARTSYS.
> > 
> 
> All of the above is well known. That's because forced umount affects
> the entire filesystem. Why are you using it here in the first place? It
> is not intended for casual use.
> 

While I agree Trond's above statement, the kernel is not supposed to
leak error codes that high into userland. Are you seeing ERESTARTSYS
being returned to system calls? If so, which ones?
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-22 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-21  8:20 PROBLEM: NFS client IO fails with ERESTARTSYS when another mount point with the same export is unmounted with force [NFS] [SUNRPC] Zhitao Li
2024-02-21 13:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2024-02-22  3:05   ` Zhitao Li
2024-02-22 11:05   ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2024-02-22 15:20     ` Trond Myklebust
2024-02-23  3:44       ` Zhitao Li
2024-02-23 10:31       ` Jeff Layton
2024-02-27  2:35         ` Zhitao Li
2024-02-23  3:20     ` Zhitao Li
2024-02-27 23:55       ` NeilBrown
2024-02-28  3:37         ` Zhitao Li

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