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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NFSv4] 2.6.23-rc4 oops in nfs4_cb_recall...
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:04:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070909210400.GA7136@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2220709040405i4f816afemb3a44d9cd95f9cc@mail.gmail.com>

> When accessing a directory inode from a single other client, NFSv4
> callbacks catastrophically failed [1] on the NFS server with
> 2.6.23-rc4 (unpatched); clients are both 2.6.22 (Ubuntu Gutsy build).
> Seems not easy to reproduce, since this kernel was running smoothly
> for 7 days on the server.
> 
> What information will help track this down, or is there a known
> failure mechanism?

I haven't seen that before.

> I can map stack frames to source lines with objdump, if that helps.

If it's still easy, it might help to figure out exactly where in
xprt_reserve() it died, and why.  If we've got some race that can lead
to freeing the client while a callback is in progress, then perhaps this
is on the first dereference of xprt?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-09 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 11:05 [NFSv4] 2.6.23-rc4 oops in nfs4_cb_recall Daniel J Blueman
2007-09-09 21:04 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-09-10 14:39   ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-09-13  1:53     ` J. Bruce Fields

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