Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:10:14 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        dbushong@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (David Bushong)
Cc:        Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr (HERBELOT Thierry), Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syncing filesystems... giving up 
Message-ID:  <199903101910.LAA01125@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:37:22 PST." <199903101837.KAA21282@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
It looks like my patch didn't make it to the list yet (probably 
still stuck on /var/spool at home after terminating my PPP 
connection).  From what I can tell I get fewer occurrences of 
"giving up" with the following patch applied.  I've submitted to 
bugs:  kern/10528.

This patch removes the P_SYSTEM status from MFS when it receives a 
signal to umount and die.  The 2.2.x MFS did not set this bit.

--- src/sys/ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c.orig	Thu Dec 31 20:14:11 1998
+++ src/sys/ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c	Wed Mar 10 11:04:21 1999
@@ -420,11 +420,15 @@
 		 */
 		if (gotsig) {
 			gotsig = 0;
-			if (dounmount(mp, 0, p) != 0)
+			if (dounmount(mp, 0, p) != 0) {
+				curproc->p_flag |= P_SYSTEM;
 				CLRSIG(p, CURSIG(p));	/* try sleep again.. */
+			}
 		}
-		else if (tsleep((caddr_t)vp, mfs_pri, "mfsidl", 0))
+		else if (tsleep((caddr_t)vp, mfs_pri, "mfsidl", 0)) {
 			gotsig++;	/* try to unmount in next pass */
+			curproc->p_flag &= ~P_SYSTEM;
+		}
 	}
 	return (0);
 }



Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Open Systems Group          Internet:  Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
ITSD                                   Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca
Province of BC            
                                       
In message <199903101837.KAA21282@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, David 
Bushong writes
:
> Ah HAH!  Thanks!  Now I know what I changed just before this started 
> happening to me too (I have an AHA2940UW).  I will try putting umount /tmp
> in /etc/rc.shutdown, but what's the reason for this problem?  I have lots
> of memory and like my nice fast /tmp...
> 
> --David Bushong
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > One problem was the use of MFS (I had it for /tmp and had the same prob
> > with sync)
> > 
> > I don't remember if this was fixed or not.
> > 
> > 	TfH
> > 
> > 
> > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've managed to convert a couple of systems to 3.1R.  Both systems have
> > > SCSI controllers, one with 2940UW2, one SCSI hard disk, a SCSI CDROM
> > > drive, and 4mm external tape drive the other with a 1542CF, two SCSI
> > > hard disks (+ 2 IDE hard disks), SCSI CDROM drive, and a 4mm internal
> > > tape drive.  In both cases I've noticed that when shutting the systems
> > > down (halt or reboot) I get "syncing filesystems... giving up" more
> > > frequently (about 75% of reboots) than under 2.x.x (2.0.5 - 2.2.8).
> > > Has anyone else noticed this?  I haven't used 3.1R on IDE only systems
> > > (I have two other systems with only IDE peripherals, however these
> > > haven't been upgraded yet).  One of the systems (the one with the
> > > 2940UW2) had been running with CAM patches installed on 2.2.6 through
> > > 2.2.8 with no problems.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
> > > Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
> > > Open Systems Group          Internet:  Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
> > > ITSD                                   Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca
> > > Province of BC
> > > 
> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
> > 
> > 
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199903101910.LAA01125>