linux-ext4 - Re: data=journal regressions in 3.16-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:55:14 -0400
From:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
To:	"Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
Cc:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: data=journal regressions in 3.16-rc1

The first invocation of fsx causes generic/075 to fail.  Within 075.0.fsxlog,
bad reads appear to be the cause:

READ BAD DATA: offset = 0xb7f0, size = 0x8111, fname = 075.0
OFFSET	GOOD	BAD	RANGE
0x13000	0x1aee	0x0000	0x    0
operation# (mod 256) for the bad data unknown, check HOLE and EXTEND ops
0x13001	0xee1a	0x0000	0x    1
operation# (mod 256) for the bad data unknown, check HOLE and EXTEND ops
0x13002	0x1a01	0x0000	0x    2

(etc. - goes on until RANGE = 0xf)

This code is new to me, but it looks like fsx is getting zeros where it
expects other values.

Eric


* Wilcox, Matthew R <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>:
> Which test in 075.0.fsxlog indicates failure?
> ________________________________________
> From: Eric Whitney [enwlinux@...il.com]
> Sent: June 23, 2014 1:24 PM
> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: tytso@....edu; Wilcox, Matthew R
> Subject: data=journal regressions in 3.16-rc1
> 
> My regression test results for 3.16-rc1 on x86_64 show three new xfstests
> failures since 3.15 final when running on an ext4 filesystem mounted with the
> data=journal and block_validity mount options (xfstests-bld's data_journal
> scenario). These are generic/075, /112, and /231.  All three tests fail
> consistently.
> 
> These failures bisect to this kernel patch:
> 7fc34a62ca  mm/msync.c: sync only the requested range in msync()
> 
> These failures also appear when running on 3.16-rc2, and disappear if the
> aforementioned patch is reverted.  I've not seen the failures in any of the
> other test scenarios I've run on 3.16-rc1 (4k, ext3, nojournal, etc.).
> 
> No error messages appear in the kernel log, and not a lot useful is reported
> when a test fails.  Just for reference, here's the result of a generic/075
> failure:
> 
> generic/075 62s ...     [15:33:07] [15:33:09] [failed, exit status 1] - output mismatch (see /root/xfstests/results//generic/075.out.bad)
>     --- tests/generic/075.out   2014-06-16 13:14:27.233891460 -0400
>     +++ /root/xfstests/results//generic/075.out.bad     2014-06-23 15:33:09.654212783 -0400
>     @@ -4,15 +4,5 @@
>      -----------------------------------------------
>      fsx.0 : -d -N numops -S 0
>      -----------------------------------------------
>     -
>     ------------------------------------------------
>     -fsx.1 : -d -N numops -S 0 -x
>     ------------------------------------------------
>     ...
>     (Run 'diff -u tests/generic/075.out /root/xfstests/results//generic/075.out.bad'  to see the entire diff)
> Ran: generic/075
> Failures: generic/075
> Failed 1 of 1 tests
> 
> 
> And the contents of xfstests/results/generic/075.out.bad:
> 
> 
> QA output created by 075
> brevity is wit...
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> fsx.0 : -d -N numops -S 0
> -----------------------------------------------
>     fsx (-d -N 1000 -S 0) failed, 0 - compare /root/xfstests/results//generic/075.0.{good,bad,fsxlog}
> od: /root/xfstests/results//generic/075.0.fsxgood: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Additional test configuration info:
> 
> e2fsprogs master branch:  bb9cca2ca9
> xfstests master branch:  45d1fac130
> 
> Perhaps data=journal has an unexpected dependency on the old msync behavior,
> given the patch comment?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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