On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 11:20 +0530, Venky Shankar wrote:
> v2:
> - export ceph_debugfs_dir
> - include v1 mount support debugfs entry
> - create debugfs entries under /<>/ceph/client_features dir
>
> [This is based on top of new mount syntax series]
>
> Patrick proposed the idea of having debugfs entries to signify if
> kernel supports the new (v2) mount syntax. The primary use of this
> information is to catch any bugs in the new syntax implementation.
>
> This would be done as follows::
>
> The userspace mount helper tries to mount using the new mount syntax
> and fallsback to using old syntax if the mount using new syntax fails.
> However, a bug in the new mount syntax implementation can silently
> result in the mount helper switching to old syntax.
>
> So, the debugfs entries can be relied upon by the mount helper to
> check if the kernel supports the new mount syntax. Cases when the
> mount using the new syntax fails, but the kernel does support the
> new mount syntax, the mount helper could probably log before switching
> to the old syntax (or fail the mount altogether when run in test mode).
>
> Debugfs entries are as follows::
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/
> ....
> ....
> /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/client_features
> /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/client_features/v2_mount_syntax
> /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/client_features/v1_mount_syntax
> ....
> ....
>
There are at least some scripts in teuthology that iterate over all of
the directories under /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/. Once you add this, some
of them may become confused.
I think we might want a more generic top-level directory for this sort
of thing, so that we only need to deal with the fallout once if we want
to put other generic info in there.
Maybe something like this?
/sys/kernel/debug/ceph/meta/
/sys/kernel/debug/ceph/meta/client_features
I'd be open to different names for "meta" too.
Also, do we really want to present this info via directories? I would
have thought something more like a "meta/mount_syntax" file there that
just prints "v1 v2" when read.
What's easier for scripting?
> Venky Shankar (2):
> libceph: export ceph_debugfs_dir for use in ceph.ko
> ceph: add debugfs entries for mount syntax support
>
> fs/ceph/debugfs.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/ceph/super.c | 3 +++
> fs/ceph/super.h | 2 ++
> include/linux/ceph/debugfs.h | 2 ++
> net/ceph/debugfs.c | 3 ++-
> 5 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
