From: Allard Hoeve <allard@byte.nl>
Subject: Re: lockd crash
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:09:26 +0200 (CEST)
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Hello Trond, all,

>> We've been experincing strange lockd crashes on one of our file servers
>> lately. The kernel lockd gets stuck in a D state and is unkillable, while
>> other NFS processes continue to work fine. Files are served, we're able to
>> mount/umount etc, but trying to attain a lock results in a (killable with
>> KILL) process on the client.
>
> http://client.linux-nfs.org/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.23-rc7/linux-2.6.23-001-fix_lockd_circular_dependency.dif

Thanks for the link.

Is it feasible to backport this to, say 2.6.20?

Otherwise, I'll have to find a way to upgrade to 2.6.23, which is a bit 
too new to my tastes :)

Regards,

Allard Hoeve

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