Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:58:45 +0800
From:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@....sgi.com>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: xfsprogs: Fix for xfstest 252 hang on ext4

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Allison Henderson
<achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/2011 7:38 PM, Allison Henderson wrote:
>>
>> On 5/23/2011 6:16 PM, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Allison Henderson
>>> <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> While trying to add more punch hole tests to xfstest, I found that
>>>> test 252 hangs on ext4 due to a loop in xfsprogs that does not exit.
>>>> XFS gets out of this loop because there is logic in the loop that
>>>> looks for the last extent flag and breaks out. But it looks like ext4
>>>> does not return a last extent when the file has a hole at the end. I
>>>> am not sure if this is the correct behavior or not, so I will copy
>>>> the ext4 folks on this too. Below is a copy of the fix for xfsprogs:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> What's blocksize of the tested ext4? For now, ext4 returns
>>> LAST_EXTENT if the logical offset covered by the extent is greater
>>> than file size, so if there is a hole at the end, no last extent is
>>> returned. Thx!
>>>
>>> Yongqiang.
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> The block size I've been using is 4096. As long as that behavior is
>> expected, I think the test will be ok with just the xfsprogs fix,
>> though. Thx!
>>
>> Allison Henderson
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/io/fiemap.c b/io/fiemap.c
>>>> index fa990cc..81fc92c 100644
>>>> --- a/io/fiemap.c
>>>> +++ b/io/fiemap.c
>>>> @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ fiemap_f(
>>>> flg_w, _("FLAGS"));
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> - while (!last&& ((cur_extent + 1) != max_extents)) {
>>>> + while (!last&& (cur_extent<= max_extents)) {
>>>> if (max_extents)
>>>> num_extents = min(num_extents,
>>>> max_extents - (cur_extent + 1));
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the loop enters with last=0, cur_extents=0, and
>>>> max_extents = 0, and on the first iteration cur_extents get set to 2,
>>>> so we dont see ((cur_extent + 1) == max_extents for a very long time.
>>>> I doubt the logic was meant to work that way, so this patch should
>>>> fix it, but I wanted to make sure that the fiemap for ext4 is working
>>>> as intended too. Feed back appreciated! Thx all!
>>>>
>>>> Allison Henderson
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I haven't heard much back on this patch, so Im just poking this
>>> thread to make sure it doesn't get forgotten. I have some patches
>>> out there for punch hole, and I'm currently looking at fixing up
>>> some older punch hole tests in the dmapi code, but they wont do much
>>> good for ext4 with out this fix.  If I could get a quick peek from
>>> some one on the xfs list for this patch, that would be much
>>> appreciated.  Thx all!
>>
>> If ext4 is not setting the last extent flag on the last extent then
>> that's an ext4 bug that the test has detected, right? And so you
>> should be fixing ext4 rather than modifying the test to hide the
>> different behaviour?
>>
>> Cheer
>>
>>-- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com
>
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry, I should have poked the thread with Yongqiang's response, so I will
> move the dialog into this thread.  At the moment, it sounds like the fiemap
> for ext4 is working as intended.  Yongqiang, do you agree that the fiemap
> for ext4 should be changed?  I think you are more familiar with this part of
Yes, I agree.  ext4 should return LAST extent.  I am thinking if we
can find a new solution collecting extents.

Maybe we can insert delayed extents into extent tree. This way fiemap
will be simpler and much more efficient.

I would like to throw out the proposal inserting delayed-extents into
extent tree.  What will it bring?  AFAIK it will bring:
1. We need to down i_data_sem in delayed write-path to insert
delayed-extents into the tree without journaling it.

2. When we come to block allocation, we can convert delayed-extents to
normal extents.

There is a problem that the solution can be only used in ordered mode.
So what are your opinions？

Yongqiang.

> the code than I am, and I just want to make sure we find a solution that
> everyone is happy with.  Thx!
>
> Allison Henderson
>
>
>
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