On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:45 +1000, ibm-main wrote:

Shane,

There was a small problem with the patch Maeda-san sent. It doesn't take
into account that kill_sb is called even in the cases where fill_super
failed.

The patchset f0.1 addresses this.

Let me know if you see any problems.

Thanks,

chandra
> From: "MAEDA Naoaki"
> >
> > Sorry to interrupt the discussion. I found a different rcfs
> > mount/umount problem on f0.
> >
> > I tried to run the rapid mount/unmount script on f0, and then
> > stopped the script by SIGINT. After that, I've sometimes observed
> > that further rcfs mount request is failed by EPERM permanently.
> >
> > I guess the reason is that rcfs_mount_count is wrongly
> > incremented in rcfs_fill_super() on error return case.
> >
> > Following patch fix the problem.
> 
> I have also observed the EPERM behaviour on f0 after some further testing.
> Then I applied the patch, and following make/reboot, some *VERY* strange
> things started happening.
> I ran the "rapid" script, and interrupted it; "df -a" showed 2 (yes *two*)
> entries for rcfs (both showing all zeroes). I issued a umount, and the
> "df -a" showed just the one entry, but with usage figures that exactly
> matched those for / (root) - not zeroes as I would have expected.
> A subsequent umount for rcfs generated the following (all 4) messages ;
> umount: none: not found
> umount: /rcfs: not mounted
> umount: none: not found
> umount: /rcfs: not mounted
> 
> I was subsequently able to replicate this to some extent after another
> reboot; ran the script and interrupted it. Only one entry in the "df -a",
> but it showed usage numbers as per /, and the 4 messges above issued after a
> umount. The "echo" trace from the loop showed a umount happened to be the
> last command issued, by there was still that entry in the "df".
> 
> Food for thought maybe.
> 
> As a side-note, I now have two (different) systems that consistently display
> the umount hang at e19.
> 
> Shane ...
> 
> 
> 
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