Re: [PATCHSET v2 0/3] fstests: fix some hangs in crash recovery

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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(-)
> 




[Index of Archives]     [XFS Filesystem Development (older mail)]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Trails]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]


  Powered by Linux