processes stuck on a vnode lock

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Thu Nov 4 14:45:29 UTC 2010


on 04/11/2010 09:49 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> 
> I see a few processes stuck on the same vnode, trying to take or to upgrade to
> an exclusive lock on it, while the lock data suggests that it is already
> shared-locked.  The vnode is a root vnode of one of ZFS filesystems (it's not a
> global root).
> 
> I couldn't find any (other) threads that could actually hold the vnode lock, but
> lock shared count is suspiciously or coincidentally the same as number of
> threads in zfs_root call.

BTW, I still have the system alive and online, so if anyone has ideas I can try them.

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Andriy Gapon


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