Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:21:00 +0100
From: Michael Gernoth <simigern@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hanging NFS umounts with 2.4.27
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:55:41AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> fr den 05.11.2004 Klokka 11:02 (+0100) skreiv Michael Gernoth:
> 
> > Searching through the Changesets I found 1.1402.1.19:
> > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@1.1402.1.19
> > After reverting this one, we have a stable umount-behaviour again.
> 
> Does the attached patch help at all?
>
>   NFS: Always wake up tasks that are waiting on the sillyrenamed file to
>        complete.

This seems to fix it for us. Neither my stress-test during the weekend
nor the students today were able to reproduce the hanging umounts :-)

Thanks,
  Michael

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