Re: [PATCH] xfs: test mkfs.xfs sizing of internal logs that

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On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:11:49AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 04:21:36PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:24:13AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 04:49:30PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 09:44:26AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 12:52:57PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > > > +# First we try various small filesystems and stripe sizes.
> > > > > > +for M in `seq 298 302` `seq 490 520`; do
> > > > > > +	for S in `seq 32 4 64`; do
> > > > > > +		test_format "M=$M S=$S" -dsu=${S}k,sw=1,size=${M}m
> > > > > > +	done
> > > > > > +done
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +# log so large it pushes the root dir into AG 1
> > > > > > +test_format "log pushes rootdir into AG 1" -d agcount=3200,size=6366g -lagnum=0
> > > > 
> > > > ...this particular check in mkfs only happens after we allocate the root
> > > > directory, which an -N invocation doesn't do.
> > > 
> > > Ok, so for this test can we drop the -N? We don't need to do 30 IOs
> > > and write 64MB logs for every config we test - I think there's ~35 *
> > > 8 invocations of test_format in the loop above before we get here...
> > > 
> > > Also, why do we need a 6.3TB filesystem with 2.1GB AGs and a 2GB log
> > > to trigger this? That means we have to write 2GB to disk, plus
> > > ~20,000 write IOs for the AG headers and btree root blocks before we
> > > get to the failure case, yes?
> > > 
> > > Why not just exercise the failure case with something like this:
> > > 
> > > # mkfs.xfs -d agcount=2,size=64M -l size=8180b,agnum=0 -d file,name=test.img
> > > meta-data=test.img               isize=512    agcount=2, agsize=8192 blks
> > >          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
> > >          =                       crc=1        finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0
> > >          =                       reflink=1    bigtime=0 inobtcount=0
> > > data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=16384, imaxpct=25
> > >          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
> > > naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0, ftype=1
> > > log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=8180, version=2
> > >          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> > > realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
> > > mkfs.xfs: root inode created in AG 1, not AG 0
> > 
> > Welll... a better reason for why this test can't do that -- one of my
> > fixes also made mkfs reject -l size=XXX when XXX is not possible.
> 
> So you make other changes to mkfs that aren't yet upstream that
> check whether the log causes the root inode to change position?

It's in for-next, is that not good enough?

> I mean, '-l size=8180b' results in a log that fits perfectly fine in
> an empty AG, and so you must have added more checks to detect this
> moves the root inode somehow?
> 
> > That said... -d agcount=3200,size=6366g -lagnum=0 -N seems to work?
> 
> On a new mkfs binary with those checks that you mention above?  If
> so, it seems to me that those new checks trigger for this case, too,
> before we write anything?
>
> IOWs, this won't fail on older mkfs.xfs binaries that don't have
> these new log size checks because we never get around to allocating
> the root inode and checking it's location, right?  Yet what we
> really want here is for it to fail on an old mkfs binary?

Yeah, something like that.  It's been so long since Eric and I were
actively poking on this that I don't remember so well anymore.

--D

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



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