From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
I was exploring the fsverity metadata with xfs_db after creating a 220MB
verity file, and I noticed the following in the debugger output:
entries[0-75] = [hashval,nameidx,incomplete,root,secure,local,parent,verity]
0:[0,4076,0,0,0,0,0,1]
1:[0,1472,0,0,0,1,0,1]
2:[0x800,4056,0,0,0,0,0,1]
3:[0x800,4036,0,0,0,0,0,1]
...
72:[0x12000,2716,0,0,0,0,0,1]
73:[0x12000,2696,0,0,0,0,0,1]
74:[0x12800,2676,0,0,0,0,0,1]
75:[0x12800,2656,0,0,0,0,0,1]
...
nvlist[0].merkle_off = 0x18000
nvlist[1].merkle_off = 0
nvlist[2].merkle_off = 0x19000
nvlist[3].merkle_off = 0x1000
...
nvlist[71].merkle_off = 0x5b000
nvlist[72].merkle_off = 0x44000
nvlist[73].merkle_off = 0x5c000
nvlist[74].merkle_off = 0x45000
nvlist[75].merkle_off = 0x5d000
Within just this attr leaf block, there are 76 attr entries, but only 38
distinct hash values. There are 415 merkle tree blocks for this file,
but we already have hash collisions. This isn't good performance from
the standard da hash function because we're mostly shifting and rolling
zeroes around.
However, we don't even have to do that much work -- the merkle tree
block keys are themslves u64 values. Truncate that value to 32 bits
(the size of xfs_dahash_t) and use that for the hash. We won't have any
collisions between merkle tree blocks until that tree grows to 2^32nd
blocks. On a 4k block filesystem, we won't hit that unless the file
contains more than 2^49 bytes, assuming sha256.
As a side effect, the keys for merkle tree blocks get written out in
roughly sequential order, though I didn't observe any change in
performance.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 7 +++++++
libxfs/xfs_da_format.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
index aca65971..971d185b 100644
--- a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -241,6 +241,13 @@ xfs_attr_hashname(
const uint8_t *name,
unsigned int namelen)
{
+ if ((attr_flags & XFS_ATTR_VERITY) &&
+ namelen == sizeof(struct xfs_verity_merkle_key)) {
+ uint64_t off = xfs_verity_merkle_key_from_disk(name);
+
+ return off >> XFS_VERITY_MIN_MERKLE_BLOCKLOG;
+ }
+
return xfs_da_hashname(name, namelen);
}
diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h b/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
index 2d2314a5..1d061cc0 100644
--- a/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
+++ b/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
@@ -951,4 +951,6 @@ xfs_verity_merkle_key_from_disk(
#define XFS_VERITY_DESCRIPTOR_NAME "vdesc"
#define XFS_VERITY_DESCRIPTOR_NAME_LEN (sizeof(XFS_VERITY_DESCRIPTOR_NAME) - 1)
+#define XFS_VERITY_MIN_MERKLE_BLOCKLOG (10)
+
#endif /* __XFS_DA_FORMAT_H__ */
