On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 09:22:24PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > There are several tests in fstests (generic/019, generic/388, > generic/475, xfs/057, etc.) that test filesystem crash recovery by > starting a loop that kicks off a filesystem exerciser, waits a few > seconds, and offlines the filesystem somehow. Some of them use the > block layer's error injector, some use dm-error, and some use the > shutdown ioctl. > > The crash tests that employ error injection have the unfortunate trait > of causing occasional livelocks when tested against XFS because XFS > allows administrators to configure the filesystem to retry some failed > writes indefinitely. If the offlining races with a full log trying to > update the filesystem, the fs will hang forever. Fix this by allowing > XFS to go offline immediately. > > While we're at it, fix the dmesg scrapers so they don't trip over XFS > reporting these IO errors as internal errors. > > v2: add hch reviews > > If you're going to start using this mess, you probably ought to just > pull from my git trees, which are linked below. > > This is an extraordinary way to destroy everything. Enjoy! > Comments and questions are, as always, welcome. > > --D I'd like to merge this patchset, after long time testing, it looks like not bring in regression. It's stuck long time, let's keep moving :) Reviewed-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > fstests git tree: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfstests-dev.git/log/?h=fix-shutdown-test-hangs > --- > check | 1 + > common/dmerror | 4 ++++ > common/fail_make_request | 1 + > common/rc | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > common/xfs | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > tests/xfs/006.out | 6 +++--- > tests/xfs/264.out | 12 ++++++----- > 7 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >