Re: [PATCH] generic/471: adapt test when running on btrfs to avoid failure on RWF_NOWAIT write

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On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:14 AM Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2020/6/12 下午10:06, fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This test currently always fails on btrfs:
> >
> > generic/471 2s ... - output mismatch (see ...results//generic/471.out.bad)
> >     --- tests/generic/471.out   2020-06-10 19:29:03.850519863 +0100
> >     +++ /home/fdmanana/git/hub/xfstests/results//generic/471.out.bad   ...
> >     @@ -2,12 +2,10 @@
> >      pwrite: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >      wrote 8388608/8388608 bytes at offset 0
> >      XXX Bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
> >     -RWF_NOWAIT time is within limits.
> >     +pwrite: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >     +(standard_in) 1: syntax error
> >     +RWF_NOWAIT took  seconds
> >
> > This is because btrfs is a COW filesystem and an attempt to write into a
> > previously written file range allocating a new extent (or multiple).
> > The only exceptions are when attempting to write to a file range with a
> > preallocated/unwritten extent or when writing to a NOCOW file that has
> > extents allocated in the target range already.
> >
> > The test currently expects that writing into a previously written file
> > range succeeds, but that is not true on btrfs since we are not dealing
> > with a NOCOW file. So to make the test pass on btrfs, set the NOCOW bit
> > on the file when the filesystem is btrfs.
>
> Completely agree with the point for btrfs.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tests/generic/471 | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tests/generic/471 b/tests/generic/471
> > index 7513f023..e9856b52 100755
> > --- a/tests/generic/471
> > +++ b/tests/generic/471
> > @@ -37,6 +37,17 @@ fi
> >
> >  mkdir $testdir
> >
> > +# Btrfs is a COW filesystem, so a RWF_NOWAIT write will always fail with -EAGAIN
> > +# when writing to a file range except if it's a NOCOW file and an extent for the
> > +# range already exists or if it's a COW file and preallocated/unwritten extent
> > +# exists in the target range. So to make sure that the last write succeeds on
> > +# all filesystems, use a NOCOW file on btrfs.
> > +if [ $FSTYP == "btrfs" ]; then
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> Although I'm not sure if really only specific to btrfs.
> XFS has its always_cow sysfs interface to make data write to always do
> COW, just like what btrfs do by default.
>
> Thus I believe this may be needed for all fses, and just ignore the
> error if the fs doesn't support COW.

I don't understand your point.
If that flag is enabled on xfs (iirc it's a debug flag), the test
would fail on xfs even if we attempt chattr +C (afaics xfs doesn't
support +C).
So I don't see the benefit of always doing it.

Thanks.


>
> Thanks,
> Qu
>
> > +     _require_chattr C
> > +     touch $testdir/f1
> > +     $CHATTR_PROG +C $testdir/f1
> > +fi
> > +
> >  # Create a file with pwrite nowait (will fail with EAGAIN)
> >  $XFS_IO_PROG -f -d -c "pwrite -N -V 1 -b 1M 0 1M" $testdir/f1
> >
> >
>




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