On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:39:39PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 06:04:26PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > >> Sorry noise xfs list, I meant to CC fsdevel > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > This is the 2nd revision of crash consistency patch set. > >> > The main thing that changed since v1 is my confidence in the failures > >> > reported by the test, along with some more debugging options for > >> > running the test tools. > >> > > >> > I've collected these patches that have been sitting in Josef Bacik's > >> > tree for a few years and kicked them a bit into shape. > >> > The dm-log-writes target has been merged to kernel v4.1, see: > >> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/device-mapper/log-writes.txt > >> > > >> > For this posting, I kept the random seeds constant for the test. > >> > I set these constant seeds after running with random seed for a little > >> > while and getting failure reports. With the current values in the test > >> > I was able to reproduce at high probablity failures with xfs, ext4 and btrfs. > >> > The probablity of reproducing the failure is higher on a spinning disk. > >> > > > > > I'd rather we make it as evil as possible. As long as we're printing out the > > seed that was used in the output then we can go in and manually change the test > > to use the same seed over and over again if we need to debug a problem. > > Yeh that's what I did, but then I found values that reproduce a problem, > so maybe its worth clinging on to these values now until the bugs are fixed in > upstream and then as regression tests. > > Anyway, I can keep these presets commented out, or run the test twice, > once with presets and once with random seed, whatever Eryu decides. > > > > > >> > There is an outstanding problem with the test - when I run it with > >> > kvm-xfstests, the test halts and I get soft lockup of log_writes_kthread. > >> > I suppose its a bug in dm-log-writes with some kernel config or with virtio > >> > I wasn't able to determine the reason and have little time to debug this. > >> > > >> > Since dm-log-writes is anyway in upstream kernel, I don't think a bug > >> > in dm-log-writes for a certain config is a reason to block this xfstest > >> > from being merged. > >> > Anyway, I would be glad if someone could take a look at the soft lockup > >> > issue. Josef? > >> > > > > > Yeah can you give this a try and see if the soft lockup goes away? > > > > It does go away. Thanks! > Now something's wrong with the log. > it get corrupted in most of the test runs, something like this: > > replaying 17624@158946: sector 8651296, size 4096, flags 0 > replaying 17625@158955: sector 0, size 0, flags 0 > replaying 17626@158956: sector 72057596591815616, size 103079215104, flags 0 > Error allocating buffer 103079215104 entry 17626 > > I'll look into it Oh are the devices 4k sectorsize devices? I fucked up 4k sectorsize support, I sent some patches to fix it but they haven't been integrated yet, I'll poke those again. They are in my dm-log-writes-fixes branch in my btrfs-next tree on kernel.org. Thanks, Josef
