On 3/18/20 9:17 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
Hi,
With new vm install I am finding corruption with the vm image if I
follow up the install with echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
The file system reports below error.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
[ 4.916017] EXT4-fs error (device vda2): ext4_lookup:1700: inode #787185: comm sh: iget: checksum invalid
done.
[ 5.244312] EXT4-fs error (device vda2): ext4_lookup:1700: inode #917954: comm init: iget: checksum invalid
[ 5.257246] EXT4-fs error (device vda2): ext4_lookup:1700: inode #917954: comm init: iget: checksum invalid
/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 74
[ 5.271207] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00
And debugfs reports
debugfs: stat <917954>
Inode: 917954 Type: bad type Mode: 0000 Flags: 0x0
Generation: 0 Version: 0x00000000
User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0
File ACL: 0
Links: 0 Blockcount: 0
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
atime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
mtime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
Size of extra inode fields: 0
Inode checksum: 0x00000000
BLOCKS:
debugfs:
Bisecting this finds
Commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3("ext4: make dioread_nolock the default")
as bad. If I revert the same on top of linus upstream(fb33c6510d5595144d585aa194d377cf74d31911)
I don't hit the corrupttion anymore.
Tried replicating this and could easily replicate it on Power box.
I tried to reproduce this on x86 too, but could not reproduce on x86.
Now one difference on Power could be that pagesize is 64K and fs
blocksize is 4K.
The issue looks like the guest qemu image file is not properly written
back, after host does echo 3 > drop_caches. (correct me if this is not
the case).
I tried replicating via below test, but it could not reproduce.
Any idea what kind of unit test could be written for this?
I am not sure how exactly qemu is writing to it's image file.
1. Create 2 files. "mmap-file", "mmap-data".
2. "mmap-file" is a 2GB sparse file. Then at some random offsets (tried
with both 64KB align and 4KB align offsets), try to write
pagesize/blocksize amount of known data pattern.
3. These offsets (which are pagesize/blocksize align) are recorded into
"mmap-data" file via normal read/write calls.
4. Then after we wrote to both files, we munmap the "mmap-file" and
close both of these files.
5. Then we do echo 3 > drop_caches.
6. Then in the verify phase, using the offsets written in "mmap-data"
file, I read the "mmap-file" to verify if it's contents are proper or
not.
With that could not reproduce this issue.
-ritesh
