Re: [PATCH] fstests: _require_dm_target should not always skip DAX capable devices

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:42:40AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 01:36:22PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Recent changes have turned off all dm-error, dm-thin and dm-flakey
> > tests on pmem devices even when we are not explicitly testing DAX.
> > This is a regression resulting in a large number of log recovery
> > tests no longer running on my pmem-based test VMs. I added the "-o
> > dax=never" mount options to these test configs, only to find it
> > still would not run the dm tests even though the filesystem will
> > never use DAX.
> > 
> > Fix this so that the dm target DAX test explicitly ignores the
> > the block device DAX capability when the filesystem is mounted with
> > dax=never and hence we can use all the dm targets when the tests are
> > being run with FSDAX disabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  common/rc | 21 +++++++++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> > index 7f693d39..0cbe8a7d 100644
> > --- a/common/rc
> > +++ b/common/rc
> > @@ -1965,12 +1965,19 @@ _require_sane_bdev_flush()
> >  }
> >  
> >  # Decide if the scratch filesystem is likely to be mounted in fsdax mode.
> > -# If there's a dax clause in the mount options we assume the test runner
> > -# wants us to test DAX; or if the scratch device itself advertises dax mode
> > -# in sysfs.
> > -__detect_scratch_fsdax()
> > +# It goes 3 ways based on mount options::
> > +#	1. "dax" or "dax=always" means always test using DAX
> > +#	2. "dax=never" means we'll never use DAX
> > +#	3. "dax=inode" or nothing means "use scratch dev capability" to
> > +#	    determine whether DAX is going to be used.
> > +#
> > +# Returns 0 if DAX will be used, 1 if DAX is not going to be used.
> > +__scratch_uses_fsdax()
> >  {
> > -	_normalize_mount_options | egrep -q "dax(=always| |$)" && return 0
> > +	local ops=$(_normalize_mount_options)
> > +
> > +	echo $ops | egrep -q "dax(=always| |$)" && return 0
> > +	echo $ops | grep -q "dax=never" && return 1
> 
> Question: Do you want grep -w here so that grep won't match on anything
> that isn't a whole "word"?
> 
> e.g. MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ihatedax=alwaysp*****gmeoff" shouldn't be a
> match, right?

At which point fstests will be useless because the scratch device
won't mount.... :/

But, sure, if we care about people fuzzing fstests mount options
that much we can make it "grep -qw"....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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