xfstests: device busy when umount

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:01:14PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 5/17/11 4:03 AM, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I noticed that all tests which contain 'device busy' errors have
> >> falloc operations.  Does the error have something to do with falloc?

<shrug>

Perhaps a bit more detail about what you are testing, how you've set
up xfstests, etc, and some analysis of the problem is in order first?

> > cc'ing xfs list since xfs devs maintain xfstests.
> >
> > What tests have "device busy" errors?  What do the usual investigative
> > steps such as "lsof" and "fuser" tell you when this happens?
> 
> I tried running lsof | grep $TEST_DIR before umount
> and I tried sleep 1 before umount and it didn't yield anything.

Which usually indicates that you've got some kind of reference
counting problem preventing the filesystem from being unmounted.

> > Are there loop devices that didn't get cleaned up, or processes that
> > have not terminated?
> >
> > What tests have these problems?
> 
> for me 124 always fails to umount, and 198 and 213 sometimes fails to umount.

What, exactly, are you testing on? test 124 uses XFS_IOC_RESVSP
directly, not fallocate(), so all it is doing on a non-XFS
filesystem is iterating a loop that writes a 1MB file, reads it back
then unlinks it....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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