Re: Collecting aged XFS profiles

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On 07/20/2017 03:15 PM, Stefan Ring wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 07/20/2017 02:52 AM, Stefan Ring wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> ok, that shoulda worked... I wonder how to debug this, if you can't
>>>> legally share the problematic image with me to investigate...
>>>>
>>>> I put a lot of effort into selectively zeroing out unused portions
>>>> of metablocks a couple years back, I am surprised that this much remains.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if something regressed ...
>>>
>>> I will try if I can find out which code paths lead to the content
>>> being dumped out.
>>
>> Perhaps you could send xfs_info output and offsets of the "safe" strings,
>> and maybe look at block or sector boundaries of the blocks containing
>> those "safe" strings to identify magic numbers which would identify
>> the metadata types ...
>>
> 
> Ok,
> 
> I'm using the for-next branch now (0602fbe880) and inserted something
> like this so I can set a breakpoint on my_break.

Thanks, I'll dig into this a bit.  I thought we had an xfstest that looked
for this sort of leaked string problem, but now I'm not finding it... something
to fix, I guess.

-Eric
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