Bart:

We haven't seen this problem.  Will have to see if we can reproduce it and
let you know.

Thanks for letting us know.

Becky

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012, Bart Taylor wrote:

>
> Has anyone else experienced consistent kernel panics on unmount?
>
> I frequently get a kernel panic when I unmount a file system from a RHEL5
> x86_64 client (kernel = 2.6.18-308.el5). That is the latest RHEL5 kernel. I
> tested this against a stock Orangefs 2.8.6 build and also against older
> PVFS 2.8 and PVFS 2.6 builds; a panic results in all cases. I also tried an
> errata build kernel=2.6.18-308.8.1.el5.
>
> Here is my test case:
>
> Setup:
> [root@client1 ~]# mkdir /mnt/orangefs/foo
> [root@client1 ~]# echo "bar" > /mnt/orangefs/foo/bar
>
> Trigger a panic:
> [root@client1 ~]# mount -t pvfs2 tcp://server2:3334/pvfs2-fs
> /mnt/orangefs/
> [root@client1 ~]# cp /mnt/orangefs/foo/bar /mnt/orangefs/
> [root@client1 ~]# umount /mnt/orangefs/
>
>
> Below is the backtrace I get from the core file. The exception is always
> in shrink_dcache_for_unmount via the pvfs2_kill_sb call.
>
> Bart.
>
>
>
> crash> bt
> PID: 30232  TASK: ffff8101bbf220c0  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "umount"
>  #0 [ffff81019eb77b60] crash_kexec at ffffffff800b099c
>  #1 [ffff81019eb77c20] __die at ffffffff80065137
>  #2 [ffff81019eb77c60] die at ffffffff8006c789
>  #3 [ffff81019eb77c90] do_invalid_op at ffffffff8006cd49
>  #4 [ffff81019eb77d50] error_exit at ffffffff8005dde9
>     [exception RIP: shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree+375]
>     RIP: ffffffff800ef567  RSP: ffff81019eb77e08  RFLAGS: 00010286
>     RAX: 000000000000005d  RBX: ffff8101a32029c0  RCX: ffffffff80323028
>     RDX: ffffffff80323028  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: ffffffff80323020
>     RBP: ffff81019eb4e9d0   R8: ffffffff80323028   R9: 000000000000003e
>     R10: ffff81019eb77aa8  R11: 0000000000000080  R12: ffff8101a3202a20
>     R13: 0000000000000000  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: 00000000125aa580
>     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
>  #5 [ffff81019eb77e30] shrink_dcache_for_umount at ffffffff800efa83
>  #6 [ffff81019eb77e40] generic_shutdown_super at ffffffff800e774d
>  #7 [ffff81019eb77e60] kill_anon_super at ffffffff800e787b
>  #8 [ffff81019eb77e70] pvfs2_kill_sb at ffffffff88725b8a [pvfs2]
>  #9 [ffff81019eb77e90] deactivate_super at ffffffff800e792c
> #10 [ffff81019eb77eb0] sys_umount at ffffffff800f1e8b
> #11 [ffff81019eb77f80] system_call at ffffffff8005d116
>     RIP: 00000036b80d4a67  RSP: 00007fffc15c4ee8  RFLAGS: 00010246
>     RAX: 00000000000000a6  RBX: ffffffff8005d116  RCX: 0000000000406d3f
>     RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: 00000000125ab490
>     RBP: 00000000125ab4f0   R8: 0000000000000004   R9: 0000000000000001
>     R10: 0000000000000008  R11: 0000000000000246  R12: 00000000125ab460
>     R13: 00000000125ab490  R14: 00000000125ab4f0  R15: 0000000000000000
>     ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6  CS: 0033  SS: 002b
>
>

-- 
Becky Ligon
OrangeFS Support and Development
Omnibond Systems
Anderson, South Carolina
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