linux-ext4 - Re: ext2/3 using ext4 module mkdir IO error on pmem DAX mount

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Message-ID: <CAKJOkCpaLDhxar1nBErxBFp4J9CeK=qNzNYTGsA5X5ryM0a_Ow@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2016 23:56:37 +0530
From:	lokesh jaliminche <lokesh.jaliminche@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	lokesh jaliminche <lokesh.jaliminche@...il.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2/3 using ext4 module mkdir IO error on pmem DAX mount

ok, no issues and thanks for the information above.I will take care of
these things while sending corrected version of this patch.

Thanks & Regards,
      Lokesh

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:49:51PM +0530, lokesh jaliminche wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    I have tested it locally I am also getting same error but not
>> consistently. I have put some debug logs for debugging, as per the logs
>> it seems that block_group is not getting initialized properly. I am
>> not sure weather this is because of my patch. Need to debug more.
>
> I'm quite sure it's your patch, so I'm going to drop it for now.  Note
> that with ext3, we don't have flex_bg's (the flex_bg size is 1).
>
> Here's a reliable repro:
>
>         kvm-xfstests --no-log -c ext3 generic/003
>
> For more about kvm-xfstests
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git/tree/quick-start?h=META
>
> Output from running this test:
>
> BEGIN TEST ext3: Ext4 4k block emulating ext3 Thu Mar  3 18:39:33 EST 2016
> DEVICE: /dev/vdd
> MK2FS OPTIONS: -q -O ^extents,^flex_bg,^uninit_bg,^64bit,^metadata_csum,^huge_file,^dir_nlink,^extra_isize
> MOUNT OPTIONS: -o block_validity,nodelalloc
> FSTYP         -- ext4
> PLATFORM      -- Linux/i686 kvm-xfstests 4.5.0-rc2-00026-g1f2d779
> MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -q -O ^extents,^flex_bg,^uninit_bg,^64bit,^metadata_csum,^huge_file,^dir_nlink,^extra_isize /dev/vdc
> MOUNT_OPTIONS -- -o acl,user_xattr -o block_validity,nodelalloc /dev/vdc /vdc
>
> generic/003             [18:39:35][   13.096353] run fstests generic/003 at 2016-03-03 18:39:35
> [   14.859764] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_get_group_desc:288: comm mkdir: block_group >= groups_count - block_group = 850480444, groups_count = 40
> [   16.944808] EXT4-fs (vdc): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
> [   16.956276] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): ext4_get_group_desc:288: comm mkdir: block_group >= groups_count - block_group = 3221700656, groups_count = 40
> [   19.023011] EXT4-fs (vdc): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
> [   22.104702] EXT4-fs (vdc): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
>  [18:39:46] - output mismatch (see /results/results-ext3/generic/003.out.bad)
>     --- tests/generic/003.out   2016-02-29 22:18:21.000000000 -0500
>     +++ /results/results-ext3/generic/003.out.bad       2016-03-03 18:39:46.587676694 -0500
>     @@ -1,2 +1,46 @@
>      QA output created by 003
>     +mkdir: cannot create directory '/vdc/dir1': Input/output error
>     +./tests/generic/003: line 93: /vdc/dir1/file1: No such file or directory
>     +stat: cannot stat '/vdc/dir1/file1': No such file or directory
>     +cat: /vdc/dir1/file1: No such file or directory
>     +stat: cannot stat '/vdc/dir1/file1': No such file or directory
>     +ERROR: access time has not been updated after accessing file1 first time
>     ...
>     (Run 'diff -u tests/generic/003.out /results/results-ext3/generic/003.out.bad'  to see the entire diff)
> Ran: generic/003
> Failures: generic/003
> Failed 1 of 1 tests
>
> (In fact a huge number of tests fail using the ext3 configuration, but
> generic/003 is a quick fast test.  Before submitting patches, please
> run at the very least "kvm-xfstests smoke".  Admittedly, for this bug
> the smoke test wouldn't have been enough.  You would have needed
> "kvm-xfstests-g quick", or preferably, "kvm-xfstests -g auto".
> Alternatively, you can use gce-xfstests, which uses Google Compute
> Engine where you can just fire off the tests, and it will send you
> e-mail with the test results.  See
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git/tree/kvm-xfstests/README.GCE
> for more information.)
>
>                                                         - Ted
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