Re: [OpenAFS] Re: openafs hang

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth
Hi! I got bitten by another hang, which will hopefully provide more information... On 08/09/2012 05:42 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth l...@strike.wu.ac.at wrote: My box, using openafs-1.6.1 and kernel-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.i686 on Centos 6,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: openafs hang

2012-09-04 Thread Marc Dionne
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth l...@strike.wu.ac.at wrote: Hi! I got bitten by another hang, which will hopefully provide more information... On 08/09/2012 05:42 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: openafs hang

2012-09-04 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 4 Sep 2012, at 16:38, Marc Dionne wrote: That's very useful. It looks like dput gets called with the global lock held, and it can potentially call back into AFS code through afs_dentry_iput. Might have to look at the afs_syscall_pioctl in more detail (it's heavily ifdef'ed and hard to

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: openafs hang

2012-08-13 Thread Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth
On 08/09/2012 05:42 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth l...@strike.wu.ac.at wrote: My box, using openafs-1.6.1 and kernel-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.i686 on Centos 6, just hung completely and had to be rebooted. It looks like the problem was

[OpenAFS] Re: openafs hang

2012-08-09 Thread Andrew Deason
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:48:25 +0200 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth l...@strike.wu.ac.at wrote: My box, using openafs-1.6.1 and kernel-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.i686 on Centos 6, just hung completely and had to be rebooted. It looks like the problem was caused by a locking problem of the openafs kernel