linux-kernel - Re: Kernel 3.0: Instant kernel crash when mounting CIFS (also crashes with linux-3.1-rc2

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1108180914180.7903@p34.internal.lan>
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...ba.org>
cc:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Piszcz <ap@...arrain.com>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 3.0: Instant kernel crash when mounting CIFS (also crashes
 with linux-3.1-rc2



On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Jeff Layton wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:22:44 -0400 (EDT)
> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com> wrote:
>
>> Justin.
>>
>
> To be clear -- incoming in this case is reads or writes?
Reading from the CIFS share (Windows 7).

>
> Up until 3.0 cifs.ko didn't parallelize writes from a single thread. In
> 3.0 I added a patchset to increase the allowable wsize and to allow the
> kernel to issue writes in parallel.
Ahh, good to know, have not tried writes yet.

>
> Reads still suffer from the same problem however. I'm working on a
> patchset that should do the same thing for them, but it requires a
> fairly substantial overhaul of the receive codepaths.
Ok, that explains it then, thanks.

One other item, the rsync is currently running, what does mean/what option
would fix it/make the error go away?

[ 3730.897554] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3755.727255] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3760.509489] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3760.786650] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3762.854706] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3763.052163] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3764.962962] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3765.460372] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3765.855425] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3767.677672] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3781.958450] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3800.493896] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3805.911191] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3806.121384] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3817.356127] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3825.148050] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3833.687886] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3834.199746] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3834.448342] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3866.848508] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3867.126729] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3868.428427] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3872.206396] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3872.812745] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3877.655580] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3880.718684] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3880.769545] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0
[ 3882.026917] CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0

Justin.

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