Hello, While looking at a btrfs bug where we fail to active a swap file that used to have shared extents, I noticed xfs has the same bug, however the test fails intermittently, suggesting some sort of race. The test is this: root 11:03:31 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > cat swap-all-tests.sh #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/sdi MNT=/mnt/sdi NUM_CLONES=50 run_test() { local sync_after_add_reflinks=$1 local sync_after_remove_reflinks=$2 # mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null mkfs.xfs -f $DEV > /dev/null mount $DEV $MNT touch $MNT/foo chmod 0600 $MNT/foo # On btrfs the file must be NOCOW. chattr +C $MNT/foo &> /dev/null xfs_io -s -c "pwrite -b 1M 0 1M" $MNT/foo mkswap $MNT/foo for ((i = 1; i <= $NUM_CLONES; i++)); do touch $MNT/foo_clone_$i chmod 0600 $MNT/foo_clone_$i # On btrfs the file must be NOCOW. chattr +C $MNT/foo_clone_$i &> /dev/null cp --reflink=always $MNT/foo $MNT/foo_clone_$i done if [ $sync_after_add_reflinks -ne 0 ]; then # Flush delayed refs and commit current transaction. sync -f $MNT fi # Remove the original file and all clones except the last. rm -f $MNT/foo for ((i = 1; i < $NUM_CLONES; i++)); do rm -f $MNT/foo_clone_$i done if [ $sync_after_remove_reflinks -ne 0 ]; then # Flush delayed refs and commit current transaction. sync -f $MNT fi # Now use the last clone as a swap file. It should work since # its extent are not shared anymore. swapon $MNT/foo_clone_${NUM_CLONES} swapoff $MNT/foo_clone_${NUM_CLONES} umount $MNT } echo -e "\nTest without sync after creating and removing clones" run_test 0 0 echo -e "\nTest with sync after creating clones" run_test 1 0 echo -e "\nTest with sync after removing clones" run_test 0 1 echo -e "\nTest with sync after creating and removing clones" run_test 1 1 Running the test, it fails most of the time, but not always: root 11:04:25 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > ./swap-all-tests.sh Test without sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0013 sec (756.430 MiB/sec and 756.4297 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=5613cb28-3f3d-4530-a152-c98184e58e63 Test with sync after creating clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0028 sec (354.862 MiB/sec and 354.8616 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=da7932b0-0428-4318-82b1-d7a536daa066 Test with sync after removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0017 sec (586.510 MiB/sec and 586.5103 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=2ef8212c-64df-4bca-89fd-9ddadb7a824d Test with sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0014 sec (672.495 MiB/sec and 672.4950 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=0d7a0bf3-081b-4069-a346-81f1a10ebdda root 11:04:29 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > No failures above, great. Running it again: root 11:04:31 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > ./swap-all-tests.sh Test without sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0019 sec (513.611 MiB/sec and 513.6107 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=9dbafcff-1270-419a-9677-f30f8ea78b18 swapon: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapon failed: Invalid argument swapoff: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapoff failed: Invalid argument Test with sync after creating clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0010 sec (969.932 MiB/sec and 969.9321 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=dae60c3d-524f-4be5-9d1c-4cfd6a968beb Test with sync after removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0018 sec (548.847 MiB/sec and 548.8474 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=9d99061e-5675-414d-9067-c591eb6e3528 Test with sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0020 sec (488.520 MiB/sec and 488.5198 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=ff225f28-7e54-4045-8ba6-2c99df02eded root 11:04:34 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > Only the first sub-test failed. Running it once again: root 11:04:35 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > ./swap-all-tests.sh Test without sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0012 sec (803.859 MiB/sec and 803.8585 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=aeb8d730-f2c4-4adc-a59d-8047df74b75c Test with sync after creating clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0018 sec (550.055 MiB/sec and 550.0550 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=d5b7d7eb-327c-4df8-a63f-c8d556d3a083 swapon: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapon failed: Invalid argument swapoff: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapoff failed: Invalid argument Test with sync after removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0017 sec (567.859 MiB/sec and 567.8592 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=22b26e8b-c1db-4e86-a39c-82df9b4f324c swapon: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapon failed: Invalid argument swapoff: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapoff failed: Invalid argument Test with sync after creating and removing clones wrote 1048576/1048576 bytes at offset 0 1 MiB, 1 ops; 0.0019 sec (514.139 MiB/sec and 514.1388 ops/sec) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes) no label, UUID=1becd3ea-a6a5-4245-92b9-f4ef4ad23afd swapon: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapon failed: Invalid argument swapoff: /mnt/sdi/foo_clone_50: swapoff failed: Invalid argument root 11:04:39 /home/fdmanana/scripts/btrfs-bugs > This time all sub-tests failed except the first one. So just to let you know, as I was integrating the test into a generic test case for fstests. Thanks.