>>>>> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> I'm still running into NFS client problems on 2.4.0-test1-ac15
> running against a 2.2.14 knfsd server. The system is stable
> with
> 2.2.14 NFS client running against 2.2.14 knfsd server.
> In this particular setup, device 0x305 is only used by one
> client. (It contains the NFS export for the root-NFS client).
> It normally ends up with complaints about inode number
> mismatches from the 2.4.0 client, and the occasional EIO error.
What's your client setup? Is it ARM/i386, SMP,...?
For SMP machines I think we do have a problem with
nfs_refresh_inode(). There I suspect there is a race (again) due to
the removal of the lock_kernel() stuff in
nfs_file_{read,mmap,write}().
Cheers,
Trond
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