Thank you Kent, I've made this change, in include/uapi/linux/bcache.h and will build the kernel with it to attempt to reproduce the issue, and create a new bcache device. Just wondering if the note about it being divisible by BITS_PER_LONG may restrict it to a minimum value of 32? #define SB_JOURNAL_BUCKETS 8 /* SB_JOURNAL_BUCKETS must be divisible by BITS_PER_LONG */ I have a "cache" nvme disk of about 350 tb and some slow disks, each approx 300tb which I will use to create the bcache device once the kernel is installed. My bcache setup typically would look like, NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb 8:16 0 279.4G 0 disk └─bcache0 252:0 0 279.4G 0 disk sdc 8:32 0 279.4G 0 disk └─bcache2 252:256 0 279.4G 0 disk sdd 8:48 0 279.4G 0 disk └─bcache1 252:128 0 279.4G 0 disk nvme0n1 259:0 0 372.6G 0 disk ├─bcache0 252:0 0 279.4G 0 disk ├─bcache1 252:128 0 279.4G 0 disk └─bcache2 252:256 0 279.4G 0 disk Regards, Nikhil. On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 10:05, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:11:10AM +0530, Nikhil Kshirsagar wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to reproduce the problem that > > 32feee36c30ea06e38ccb8ae6e5c44c6eec790a6 fixes, but I am not sure how. > > This is to verify and test its backport > > (https://pastebin.com/fEYmPZqC) onto kernel 4.15 (Thanks Kent for the > > help with that backport!) > > > > Could this be reproduced by creating a bcache device with a smaller > > journal size? And if so, is there some way to pass the journal size > > argument during the creation of the bcache device? > > Change SB_JOURNAL_BUCKETS to 8 and make a new cache, it's used in the > initialization path. > > Bonus points would be to tweak journal reclaim so that we're slower to reclaim > to makes sure the journal stays full, and then test recovery.
