Re: [PATCH 10/10] xfstests: add disk failure simulation test

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On 03/01/2013 07:49 PM, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:11:15 -0600, Rich Johnston <rjohnston@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/20/2013 04:42 AM, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
There are many situations where disk may fail for example
1) brutal usb dongle unplug
2) iscsi (or any other netbdev) failure due to network issues
In this situation filesystem which use this blockdevice is
expected to fail(force RO remount, abort, etc) but whole system
should still be operational. In other words:
1) Kernel should not panic
2) Memory should not leak
3) Data integrity operations (sync,fsync,fdatasync, directio) should fail
     for affected filesystem
4) It should be possible to umount broken filesystem

Later when disk becomes available again we expect(only for journaled filesystems):
5) It will be possible to mount filesystem w/o explicit fsck (in order to caught

typo                                     s/caught/catch/g

     issues like https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1983981/)
6) Filesystem should be operational
7) After mount/umount has being done all errors should be fixed so fsck should
     not spot any issues.

This test use fault enjection (CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST=y config option )
    May want to mention all the kernel config options required.
i.e. CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION=y ... are there others?
CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS=y ???
Yes, all three options are required.

which force all new IO requests to fail for a given device. Xfs already has
    to force

XFS_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl which provides similar behaviour, but it is fs speciffic

typos s/behaviour/behavior/g  s/speciffic/specific
                                          > and it does it in an easy way
because it perform freeze_bdev() before actual
shotdown.
typo s/shotdown/shutdown/g
Agree with your diagnosis. My gramma is bad and I've forget to call spell check
before submission. Should I resend this one or you fix it manually
on commit time?

No worries, I'm sure your English is much better than any of my attempts to write in your native tongue. ;)
No need to resend, glad to take care of these minor changes at commit time.

commit 02e57e1e3a42856dca9061ff943ba72fa7be8469
Author: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Feb 20 10:42:15 2013 +0000

    xfstests: add disk failure simulation test

    There are many situations where disk may fail for example
    1) brutal usb dongle unplug
    2) iscsi (or any other netbdev) failure due to network issues
    In this situation filesystem which use this blockdevice is
    expected to fail(force RO remount, abort, etc) but whole system
    should still be operational. In other words:
    1) Kernel should not panic
    2) Memory should not leak
3) Data integrity operations (sync,fsync,fdatasync, directio) should fail
       for affected filesystem
    4) It should be possible to umount broken filesystem

Later when disk becomes available again we expect(only for journaled filesystems): 5) It will be possible to mount filesystem w/o explicit fsck (in order to catch
       issues like https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1983981/)
    6) Filesystem should be operational
7) After mount/umount has being done all errors should be fixed so fsck should
       not spot any issues.

    This test use fault injection (CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION=y,
    CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST=y and CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS=y config
    options) to force all new IO requests to fail for a given device. Xfs
already has XFS_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl which provides similar behavior, but it is fs specific and it does it in an easy way because it performs freeze_bdev()
    before actual shutdown.

    Test run fsstress in background and then force disk failure.
    Once disk failed it check that (1)-(4) is true.
    Then makes disk available again and check that (5)-(7) is also true

    BE CAREFUL!! test known to cause memory corruption for XFS
    see: https://gist.github.com/dmonakhov/4953045



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