Re: [cgroup or VFS ?] WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:636 mntput_no_expire+0xac/0xf2()

From: Li Zefan
Date: Fri Feb 13 2009 - 01:31:48 EST


Li Zefan wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:09:17PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>>
>>> I ran following testcase, and triggered the warning in 1 hour:
>>>
>>> thread 1:
>>> for ((; ;))
>>> {
>>> mount --bind /cgroup /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> umount /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> }
>>>
>>> tread 2:
>>> for ((; ;))
>>> {
>>> mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /cgroup > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> mkdir /cgroup/0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> rmdir /cgroup/0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> umount -l /cgroup > /dev/null 2>&1
>>> }
>> Wow. You know, at that point these redirects could probably be removed.
>
> Ah, yes.
>
>> If anything in there ends up producing an output, we very much want to
>> see that. Actually, I'd even make that
>> mount --bind /cgroup/mnt || (echo mount1: ; date)
>> etc., so we'd see when do they fail and which one fails (if any)...
>>
>> Which umount has failed in the above, BTW?
>>
>>
>
> the first one sometimes failed, and the second one hasn't failed:
>

Just triggered the warning at about:
Fri Feb 13 14:26:03 CST 2009

But both 2 threads were not failing at that time:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /cgroup,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

mount1
Fri Feb 13 14:25:21 CST 2009
umount: /mnt: not mounted
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /cgroup,
...

mount1
Fri Feb 13 14:26:32 CST 2009
umount: /mnt: not mounted
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /cgroup,
...


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