On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 04:16:30PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > We use the modified list to keep track of which extents have been modified so we > know which ones are candidates for logging at fsync() time. Newly modified > extents are added to the list at modification time, around the same time the > ordered extent is created. We do this so that we don't have to wait for ordered > extents to complete before we know what we need to log. The problem is when > something like this happens > > log extent 0-4k on inode 1 > copy csum for 0-4k from ordered extent into log > sync log > commit transaction > log some other extent on inode 1 > ordered extent for 0-4k completes and adds itself onto modified list again > log changed extents > see ordered extent for 0-4k has already been logged > at this point we assume the csum has been copied > sync log > crash > > On replay we will see the extent 0-4k in the log, drop the original 0-4k extent > which is the same one that we are replaying which also drops the csum, and then > we won't find the csum in the log for that bytenr. This of course causes us to > have errors about not having csums for certain ranges of our inode. So remove > the modified list manipulation in unpin_extent_cache, any modified extents > should have been added well before now, and we don't want them re-logged. This > fixes my test that I could reliably reproduce this problem with. Thanks, Is it possiible to turn this unspecified test in into another generic fsync xfstest? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html