Re: regressions in xfs/168?

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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 08:20:06AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hm.  Does anyone /else/ see failures with the new test xfs/168 (the fs
> > shrink tests) on a 1k blocksize?  It looks as though we shrink the AG so
> > small that we trip the assert at the end of xfs_ag_resv_init that checks
> > that the reservations for an AG don't exceed the free space in that AG,
> > but tripping that doesn't return any error code, so xfs_ag_shrink_space
> > commits the new fs size and presses on with even more shrinking until
> > we've depleted AG 1 so thoroughly that the fs won't mount anymore.
> 
> Yup, now that I've got the latest fstests I see that failure, too.
> 
> [58972.431760] Call Trace:
> [58972.432467]  xfs_ag_resv_init+0x1d3/0x240
> [58972.433611]  xfs_ag_shrink_space+0x1bf/0x360
> [58972.434801]  xfs_growfs_data+0x413/0x640
> [58972.435894]  xfs_file_ioctl+0x32f/0xd30
> [58972.439289]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8e/0xc0
> [58972.440337]  do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x70
> [58972.441347]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [58972.442741] RIP: 0033:0x7f7021755d87
> 
> > At a bare minimum we probably need to check the same thing the assert
> > does and bail out of the shrink; or maybe we just need to create a
> > function to adjust an AG's reservation to make that function less
> > complicated.
> 
> So if I'm reading xfs_ag_shrink_space() correctly, it doesn't
> check what the new reservation will be and so it's purely looking at
> whether the physical range can be freed or not? And when freeing
> that physical range results in less free space in the AG than the
> reservation requires, we pop an assert failure rather than failing
> the reservation and undoing the shrink like the code is supposed to
> do?

Yes.  I've wondered for a while now if that assert in xfs_ag_resv_init
should get turned into an ENOSPC return so that callers can decide what
they want to do with it.

--D

> IOWs, the problem is the ASSERT firing on debug kernels, not the
> actual shrink code that does handle this reservation ENOSPC error
> case properly? i.e. we've got something like an uncaught overflow
> in xfs_ag_resv_init() that is tripping the assert? (e.g. used >
> ask)
> 
> So I'm not sure that the problem is the shrink code here - it should
> undo a reservation failure just fine, but the reservation code is
> failing before we get there on a debug kernel...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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