Re: XFS crash consistency bug : Loss of fsynced metadata operation

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:19:55AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:32:07AM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > 
> > And where the "cdcd" data is comming from ? Not from the
> > 
> > "pwrite -S 1 0 64k"
> > 
> > that's producing "0101".
> 
> Ah, too much context switching. Makes me look like the village
> idiot...

that's how I was looking the past 4 emails ;)

Anyway good that we finally understand each other. I think it'd be worth
fixing the generic/042 to check for the actuall stale data not just
expecting the file to be empty as it still can do some good.

> 
> Ok, I just spent some time looking at this in detail (event traces,
> etc) and it is indeed as the test describes - an whole delalloc
> extent allocation on partial overwrite. THe partial overwrite is
> triggered by the fpunch/fzero code, and it appears the delalloc
> converison is not paying attention to the start offset of the
> writeback:
> 
> xfs_writepage:        dev 7:0 ino 0x7603 pgoff 0xf000 size 0x10000 delalloc 1
> .....
> xfs_alloc_near_greater: dev 7:0 agno 0 agbno 3784 minlen 16 maxlen 16
> .....
> xfs_write_extent:     dev 7:0 ino 0x7603 offset 0 block 3784 count 16 flag 0
> 
> IOWs, as I've said from the start (based on the test description)
> this has nothing to do with the corruption issue CrashMonkey is
> creating.

Yeah they're probably not seeing this because of added fsync.

-Lukas

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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