Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfs: for-next tree updated to efd409a4329f6927795be5ae080cd3ec8c014f49

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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 04:03:02PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've just pushed out a new for-next branch for XFS. You can find it
> here:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git for-next
> 
> This update contains the new Logged Attribute Replay functionality
> that Allison has been toiling over for a very long time. She has
> completely restructured how the attribute code works to lay the
> ground work for functionality that require attributes to be
> manipulated as part of complex atomic operations. This update
> includes that functionality as a new experimental feature which can
> be turned on via sysfs knob.
> 
> Great work, Allison, and thank you for all your hard work and help
> during this merge window so we could get to this point!

Yay!!

I ran this on the fstests cloud overnight, and I noticed complaints from
xfs/434 that we're leaking xfs_da_state objects.  I turned on kmemleak
checking, which pointed out that the removexattr code path seems to be
attaching a da state to the xfs_attr_item structure and never freeing
it.  I don't know if the delayed attrs state machine actually needs that
state as it runs through the remove states, but my dumb solution is to
free xfs_attr_item.xattri_da_state (if it's still attached) right before
we free the xfs_attr_item.

I also noticed that the attri recovery code doesn't reject unknown bits
in the alfi_op_flags and alfi_attr_flags fields, so I added a couple of
fixpatches to abort log recovery if either of those fields have bits set
that we don't recognize.

While I was poking around in there, I also found a few things that
should probably get cleaned up, such as the alfi_op_flags shouldn't be
in the XFS_ATTR_* namespace since higher level xattr code already uses
it.

Question: the alfi_attr_flags are really just the attr_filter flags from
the da_state structure, right?  I renamed the field and gave the flags
their own XFS_XATTRI_FILTER_* namespace.

Moving along, I noticed that we weren't creating a separate slab cache
for xfs_attr_item intent items, like we (now) do for the other deferred
work items, so I modified the runtime paths to use a slab cache (the
mega-item created by recovery gets left alone) and rearranged the struct
to reduce its size from 96 to 88 bytes.  Now we can cram 46 items into a
memory page instead of 32!

Also, I moved the attri and attrd log item cache initialization to
xfs_super.c to go with all the other log intent item cache
initializations, and renamed xfs_attr_item to xfs_attr_intent because
all the other high level deferred work state structures have type names
that end in _intent.

> The other functionality in the merge is the removal of all the quota
> warning infrastructure. The has never been used on Linux and really
> has no way of being used, so these changes clean up and remove the
> remaining pieces we never will use.

AFAICT the only tests changes that were needed are to silence the EINVAL
returns when we try to set the quota warning counters in xfs/050,
xfs/153, and xfs/299.  Does that square with everyone else's
experiences?

> At this point in the cycle (almost at -rc7) I'm not going to merge
> any more new functionality. I'm planning to spend the next week:
> 
> - more thoroughly testing a wider range of configurations
> - recoveryloop soak testing
> - fixing up all the tests that now fail due to changes merged during
>   the cycle
> - addressing any regressions and failures that I find

I finally diagnosed the regressions I was seeing in xfs/314 and xfs/313
on aarch64 all throughout 5.18.  Matthew Wilcox turned on multipage
folios for 5.18-rc1, which (as we talked about late last night on IRC)
now has some bad interactions with writeback failures.  TLDR: if we
create a gigantic folio, dirty it, and writeback fails on even a single
sector, we'll toss the *entire* folio, even if that's hundreds of KB.

In my triage, I observed that aarch64 will create 256k folios to cache a
file that has alternating 64k sections of holes and shared blocks.  For
the file under test in xfs/314, 512k-576k is shared, 576k-640k is a
hole, 640k-704k is shared, etc.  The program dirties 640k-1280k (which
marks the folio covering 512-768k dirty), sets an error injection point
on an rmap update, and fsyncs to initiate writeback.

Writeback seems to issue writes for the first 128K of the folio ok.  I
suspect that it's overwriting the extent mapped to 512k-576k with the
same contents, which is sorta dorky since it's unnecessary.  Next it
writes 576k-640k, which requires allocating a delalloc region, which
causes the fs to go down as soon as it issues the rmap update for the
new allocation.  This causes the fs to go down, so iomap tries to call
xfs_discard_folio to abort the writeback.  That in turn calls
iomap_invalidate_folio, which sees that it's dealing with a multipage
folio and invalidates the whole thing.

While writeback is still ongoing!

This I think is the root cause of the debug assertions tripping during
ioend completion -- writeback tore down the iop, and now ioend can't
find it and doesn't know what to do.  The folio invalidation makes
things worse, since now umount will trip over the partially uptodate
folios if they're still there at unmount time.

Sooo ... willy (I hope) is soon to become the pagecache maintainer and
clearly disagrees[1] with the current XFS behavior of invalidating and
clearing uptodate on a folio on write error.  I /think/ we can finally
let go of this quirk of ours and make XFS behave just like any other
Linux filesystem, since (AFAICT) there isn't any downside to leaving the
folio uptodate and !dirty.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/Yg04X73lr5YK5kwH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

If the program notices the EIO and redirties the file we go through the
same write paths as we did before; and if the program doesn't care, the
cached contents will remain in RAM until the folio is evicted or someone
dirties it again.  It's true that if nobody redirties the page then the
contents will be lost at some point, but that's already true.

I'm testing a patch that removes the part of iomap that clears uptodate
and the part of xfs that invalidates the folio.  We'll see how that
goes.

> - preparing for an early pull request during the merge window
> 
> I know of one failure that still needs to be analysed when LARP is
> enabled - the new recovery test fails on 1kB block size filesystems
> here. Otherwise, I did not see any unexpected failures during
> overnight testing on default configs, rmapbt=1, all quotas enabled,
> 1kB block size or V4 only testing.

Hmm.  I don't test recoveryloop on 1k block filesystems, I guess I
should... :P  Aside from the handful of issues I laid out in this reply,
everything *else* seems pretty solid.  I haven't tried larp mode or
nrext64=1 mode yet though.

> I would appreciate it if everyone could spend some cycles over the
> next week running tests against this for-next branch. we've merged a
> *lot* of new code this cycle so any extra test coverage we can get
> at this time will help ensure we find regressions sooner rather than
> later.
> 
> If I've missed anything that I should have picked up for this cycle,
> please let me know ASAP so we can determine an appropriate merge
> plan for it.

I've just sent my cleanup patches to the fstests cloud so you should
have it Sunday(ish).

--D

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit 86810a9ebd9e69498524c57a83f1271ade56ded8:
> 
>   Merge branch 'guilt/xfs-5.19-fuzz-fixes' into xfs-5.19-for-next (2022-05-04 12:38:02 +1000)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git for-next
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to efd409a4329f6927795be5ae080cd3ec8c014f49:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Head Commit:
> 
> efd409a4329f Merge branch 'xfs-5.19-quota-warn-remove' into xfs-5.19-for-next
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Allison Henderson (14):
>       xfs: Fix double unlock in defer capture code
>       xfs: Return from xfs_attr_set_iter if there are no more rmtblks to process
>       xfs: Set up infrastructure for log attribute replay
>       xfs: Implement attr logging and replay
>       xfs: Skip flip flags for delayed attrs
>       xfs: Add xfs_attr_set_deferred and xfs_attr_remove_deferred
>       xfs: Remove unused xfs_attr_*_args
>       xfs: Add log attribute error tag
>       xfs: Add larp debug option
>       xfs: Merge xfs_delattr_context into xfs_attr_item
>       xfs: Add helper function xfs_attr_leaf_addname
>       xfs: Add helper function xfs_init_attr_trans
>       xfs: add leaf split error tag
>       xfs: add leaf to node error tag
> 
> Catherine Hoang (3):
>       xfs: remove quota warning limit from struct xfs_quota_limits
>       xfs: remove warning counters from struct xfs_dquot_res
>       xfs: don't set quota warning values
> 
> Dave Chinner (20):
>       xfs: avoid empty xattr transaction when attrs are inline
>       xfs: initialise attrd item to zero
>       xfs: make xattri_leaf_bp more useful
>       xfs: rework deferred attribute operation setup
>       xfs: separate out initial attr_set states
>       xfs: kill XFS_DAC_LEAF_ADDNAME_INIT
>       xfs: consolidate leaf/node states in xfs_attr_set_iter
>       xfs: split remote attr setting out from replace path
>       xfs: XFS_DAS_LEAF_REPLACE state only needed if !LARP
>       xfs: remote xattr removal in xfs_attr_set_iter() is conditional
>       xfs: clean up final attr removal in xfs_attr_set_iter
>       xfs: xfs_attr_set_iter() does not need to return EAGAIN
>       xfs: introduce attr remove initial states into xfs_attr_set_iter
>       xfs: switch attr remove to xfs_attri_set_iter
>       xfs: remove xfs_attri_remove_iter
>       xfs: use XFS_DA_OP flags in deferred attr ops
>       xfs: ATTR_REPLACE algorithm with LARP enabled needs rework
>       xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in xfs_attr3_leaf_verify
>       xfs: can't use kmem_zalloc() for attribute buffers
>       Merge branch 'xfs-5.19-quota-warn-remove' into xfs-5.19-for-next
> 
>  fs/xfs/Makefile                 |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c        | 1641 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------------
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.h        |  198 ++++++++++--
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c   |   64 +++-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c |   37 +--
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.h |    6 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c    |    4 +
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.h    |   10 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c       |   24 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.h       |    3 +
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_errortag.h    |    8 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h      |    9 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h  |   45 ++-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_quota_defs.h  |    1 -
>  fs/xfs/scrub/common.c           |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c                |    4 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.c          |  824 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.h          |   46 +++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c          |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c              |   15 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.h              |    8 -
>  fs/xfs/xfs_error.c              |    9 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c            |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c              |    4 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c            |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c               |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log.c                |   41 +++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log.h                |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c            |   35 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h           |   34 ++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c        |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_ondisk.h             |    2 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c                 |    9 -
>  fs/xfs/xfs_qm.h                 |    5 -
>  fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c        |   26 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_quotaops.c           |    8 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h             |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c              |   24 ++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h              |   32 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c        |    3 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c              |    2 +-
>  42 files changed, 2180 insertions(+), 1016 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.c
>  create mode 100644 fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.h
> 
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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