Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys (more vnode stuff)
To: Kurt Schreiner <ks@ub.uni-mainz.de>
From: Matt Fleming <mjf@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/2007 10:21:13
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:39:23AM +0100, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:34:31PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 12:54:26AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
> > > : Log Message:
> > > : more fixes for the new vnode locking scheme:
> > > 
> > > This gives me vnode locking problems symptomatically similar to the one
> > > you fixed with sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c:1.77
> > 
> > ok, could you send me a dump for the new problem?
> Just another datapoint: mounting procfs and doing "df /proc" hangs df in
> state "vnlock". Not using procfs gives me a usable system...
> 
> mount | grep procfs
> procfs on /proc type procfs (local)
> 
> ps axl | grep df
>    77  499  161     0  -2  0    48   532 vnlock   D+   ttyp1  0:00.00 df -k 
> 
> This is on i386, sources cvs-updated ~21:00 MET
> 

doing df -h on my Xen3 DOMU with a FFS filesystem also causes df to wait in vnlock:

$ ps axl | grep df
1000 20220 12940     0  -2  0   32   516 vnlock   DX+  ttyp0   0:00.00 df -h 

Kernel was built Feb 4 22:34 GMT with fresh sources.

--mjf