[Devel] Re: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference from blocklayout routines

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:10 +0800, Peng Tao wrote: 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Myklebust, Trond
> <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: tao.peng at emc.com [mailto:tao.peng at emc.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:40 AM
> >> To: skinsbursky at parallels.com
> >> Cc: Myklebust, Trond; linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; xemul at parallels.com;
> >> neilb at suse.de; netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> >> jbottomley at parallels.com; bfields at fieldses.org; davem at davemloft.net;
> >> devel at openvz.org
> >> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference
> >> from blocklayout routines
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Stanislav Kinsbursky [mailto:skinsbursky at parallels.com]
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:19 PM
> >> > To: Peng, Tao
> >> > Cc: Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com; linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; Pavel
> >> > Emelianov; neilb at suse.de; netdev at vger.kernel.org;
> >> > linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; James Bottomley; bfields at fieldses.org;
> >> > davem at davemloft.net; devel at openvz.org
> >> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference
> >> > from blocklayout routines
> >> >
> >> > 29.11.2011 16:00, tao.peng at emc.com пишет:
> >> > >> -----Original Message-----
> >> > >> From: linux-nfs-owner at vger.kernel.org
> >> > >> [mailto:linux-nfs-owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of
> >> > Stanislav
> >> > >> Kinsbursky
> >> > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:11 PM
> >> > >> To: Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
> >> > >> Cc: linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; xemul at parallels.com; neilb at suse.de;
> >> > >> netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux- kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> >> > >> jbottomley at parallels.com; bfields at fieldses.org;
> >> > >> davem at davemloft.net; devel at openvz.org
> >> > >> Subject: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference
> >> > >> from blocklayout routines
> >> > >>
> >> > >> This is a cleanup patch. We don't need this reference anymore,
> >> > >> because blocklayout pipes dentries now creates and destroys in
> >> > >> per-net operations and on PipeFS mount/umount notification.
> >> > >> Note that nfs4blocklayout_register_net() now returns 0 instead of
> >> > >> -ENOENT in case of PipeFS superblock absence. This is ok, because
> >> > >> blocklayout pipe dentry will be created on PipeFS mount event.
> >> > > When is the "pipefs mount event" going to happen? When inserting
> >> > > kernel modules or when user issues
> >> > mount command?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > When user issues mount command.
> >> > Kernel mounts of PipeFS has been removed with all these patch sets
> >> > I've sent already.
> >> Then it is going to break blocklayout user space program blkmapd, which is
> >> stared before mounting any file system and it tries to open the pipe file
> >> when started.
> >
> > Why on earth is blkmapd doing this instead of listening for file creation notifications like the other rpc_pipefs daemons do?
> Not sure how the original implementer chose this but I think it is
> likely because we do not expect the pipe file to be created or deleted
> dynamically.

Unless blkmapd can pin the sunrpc module (which it shouldn't be able to)
then that assumption would be wrong. Please look into fixing blkmapd...

   Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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