[PATCH] eliminate hangs during RPC client shutdown

Chuck Lever (cel@citi.umich.edu)
Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:15:04 -0400 (EDT)


linus-

this is against 2.5.31 with the recent RPC call_start/reserve patches
applied, and eliminates an infinite loop in rpciod if an RPC client's
reference counter accidentally goes negative. i've been running this
under load since 2.5.30 with no ill effects.

diff -drN -U2 06-connect2/net/sunrpc/clnt.c 07-shutdown/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
--- 06-connect2/net/sunrpc/clnt.c Mon Aug 12 16:31:53 2002
+++ 07-shutdown/net/sunrpc/clnt.c Mon Aug 12 16:53:24 2002
@@ -138,11 +138,9 @@
rpc_shutdown_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
{
- dprintk("RPC: shutting down %s client for %s\n",
- clnt->cl_protname, clnt->cl_server);
- while (atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users)) {
-#ifdef RPC_DEBUG
- dprintk("RPC: rpc_shutdown_client: client %s, tasks=%d\n",
- clnt->cl_protname, atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users));
-#endif
+ dprintk("RPC: shutting down %s client for %s, tasks=%d\n",
+ clnt->cl_protname, clnt->cl_server,
+ atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users));
+
+ while (atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users) > 0) {
/* Don't let rpc_release_client destroy us */
clnt->cl_oneshot = 0;
@@ -151,4 +149,14 @@
sleep_on_timeout(&destroy_wait, 1*HZ);
}
+
+ if (atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users) < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "RPC: rpc_shutdown_client clnt %p tasks=%d\n",
+ clnt, atomic_read(&clnt->cl_users));
+#ifdef RPC_DEBUG
+ rpc_show_tasks();
+#endif
+ BUG();
+ }
+
return rpc_destroy_client(clnt);
}

-- 

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