Yenya,
>> I have a problem on Linux 2.4.20 with NFS server - my NFS server
>> from time to time (currently about once a day) stops responding to
>> NFS requests. Apart from that the system is OK, I can log in via
>> SSH, and I can run "/sbin/reboot -n -f" to reboot it. Also
>> filesystem operations seem to be OK, even Samba server is
>> responding. When this happens, I see all nfsd processes and lockd
>> process to be stuck in the "D" state.
My guess is that this is related to a bug in garbage collection in
lockd. The breakpoint is when you pass 32 unique clients. If you are
able to recompile the kernel, try this patch:
A deadlock occurs under the following sequence:
->nlmsvc_lock calls down(&file->f_sema)
->nlmsvc_create_block
->nlmclnt_lookup_host
->nlm_lookup_host may do garbage collection
->nlm_gc_hosts
->nlmsvc_mark_resources
->nlm_traverse_files action = NLM_ACT_MARK
->nlm_inspect_file loops over all files
->nlmsvc_traverse_blocks calls down(&file->f_sema)
This is a patch against 2.5.53, but it should also apply to any 2.4 or
2.5 tree since the code is virtually identical.
--- fs/lockd/svclock.c.ORIG Mon Dec 23 23:19:52 2002
+++ fs/lockd/svclock.c Mon Dec 30 13:42:10 2002
@@ -176,8 +176,14 @@
struct nlm_rqst *call;
/* Create host handle for callback */
+ /* We must up the semaphore in case the host lookup does
+ * garbage collection (which calls nlmsvc_traverse_blocks),
+ * but this shouldn't be a problem because nlmsvc_lock has
+ * to retry the lock after this anyway */
+ up(&file->f_sema);
host = nlmclnt_lookup_host(&rqstp->rq_addr,
rqstp->rq_prot, rqstp->rq_vers);
+ down(&file->f_sema);
if (host == NULL)
return NULL;
I have tried repeatedly to get this patch into the kernel, but it
hasn't made it yet. If this does solve your problem, let me know and
I will try one more time to get it accepted.
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