[OE-core] [PATCH] nfsserver restart should kill and recreate nfsd kernel threads

[Qiang Chen]

On 10/25/2013 05:13 AM, Saul Wold wrote:

> The short summary should include the recipe name.

Got it. I'll send V2 for this patch.

Thanks a lot !
Qiang

> Sau!
> On 10/21/2013 08:19 PM, qiang.chen at windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Qiang Chen <qiang.chen at windriver.com>
>> nfsserver restart without killing kernel threads worked when portmap
>> was the rpc publishing process and portmap was restarted.
>> When rpcbind replaces portmap, nfsserver restart in this way does not
>> work after an rpcbind restart.
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1). Make ext3 filesystem image on local host.
>> cd /root
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024K count=50
>> mkfs.ext3 -F test
>> 2). runqemu qemux86-64
>> mkdir /mnt/wrtest
>> mount -t ext3 -o loop test /mnt/wrtest
>> echo "/mnt/wrtest *(sync,rw,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)" > /etc/exports
>> /etc/init.d/rpcbind restart
>> /etc/init.d/nfsserver restart
>> showmount -e localhost
>> mkdir wrtest
>> mount -t nfs localhost:/mnt/wrtest wrtest
>> mount: mounting localhost:/mnt/wrtest on wrtest failed: Connection refused
>> Modifying the nfsserver script to kill and restart kernel threads on
>> restart makes the problem go away and is consistent with current
>> RHEL/SUSE and Ubuntu/Debian mechanisms of handling the nfs server.
>> Signed-off-by: Rich Dubielzig <rich.dubielzig at windriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Qiang Chen <qiang.chen at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>    .../nfs-utils/nfs-utils/nfsserver                  |   11 +++--------
>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils/nfsserver b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils/nfsserver
>> index 8ee8d0b..d7cf6e0 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils/nfsserver
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils/nfsserver
>> @@ -161,14 +161,9 @@ status)
>>        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && exit $rval
>>        exit $RETVAL;;
>>    reload)    test -r /etc/exports && exportfs -r;;
>> -restart)exportfs -ua
>> -    stop_mountd
>> -    stop_statd
>> -    # restart does not restart the kernel threads,
>> -    # only the user mode processes
>> -    start_mountd
>> -    start_statd
>> -    test -r /etc/exports && exportfs -a;;
>> +restart)
>> +    $0 stop
>> +    $0 start;;
>>    *)    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|reload|restart}"
>>        exit 1;;
>>    esac
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