Re: autofs stuck at down() in mkdir/rmdir

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Jan 1999 22:29:15 GMT

Followup to: <19990112004500.H475@ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au>
By author: Anton Blanchard <anton@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This is on a Sparc 4m/690 running vger 2.2.0-pre4 and autofs 0.3.14. We
> are using autofs to handle /home with many NFS mounts. After some use,
> automount locks up as such:
>
> # ps axl | grep automount
> 40 0 328 1 0 0 1388 220 pipe_read S ? 2:13 automount
> 40 0 21506 328 0 0 1392 284 rmdir D ? 0:00 automount
> 140 0 21512 328 0 0 1388 492 mkdir D ? 0:00 automount
>
> Are there any known problems with the semaphore locking code in
> sys_mkdir/sys_rmdir?
>

There was a severe bug unrelated to autofs in -pre5 and before; try it
again with -pre6 and see if you see it again, please.

-hpa

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