linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 fix for interaction between i_size, fallocate, and delalloc after a crash

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:46:49 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Ashlie Martinez <ashmrtn@...xas.edu>
Cc:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Vijay Chidambaram <vvijay03@...il.com>,
        Ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 fix for interaction between i_size, fallocate, and delalloc
 after a crash

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 07:46:08PM -0600, Ashlie Martinez wrote:
> > 5.  Since I'm too lazy to wait 120 seconds, just force everything to disk:
> >
> >         sync
> 
> I believe you said in an earlier email that sync would erase any trace
> of the bug Amir found as it resolves the delayed allocation.

Right, but you're waiting 120 seconds, which is enough time that it
would resolve the delayed allocation.  So that's why I was trying to
replicate your Crashmonkey experiment.

And since you stated that you waited 120 seconds as the last step,
there should have been a barrier, and no I/O operations for
Crashmonkey to rearrange.  This is why I believe what I listed should
be exactly the same as your Crashmonkey test, if I understood it
correctly.

What you said was that you ran the following operations on the test
file:

1.      write 0x137dd 0xdc69 0x0
2.      fallocate 0xb531 0xb5ad 0x21446
3.      collapse_range 0x1c000 0x4000 0x21446
	<sleep 30>
4.      write 0x3e5ec 0x1a14 0x21446
5.      zero_range 0x20fac 0x6d9c 0x40000 keep_size
	<sleep 120>

So what was the block I/O trace?  What operations was crashmonkey
actually reordering?  There **really** shouldn't have been any....

Can you send the block I/O trace that was observed when you did the
following, a complete output of dumpe2fs on the file system, and a
debugfs stat output on the test file?

						- Ted

P.S.  I did read the Crashmonkey paper, so I'm aware of what
Crashmonkey does.  I'm just confused about your workload, since the
120 second sleep should have meant there was a barrier followed by
nothing else, making for a *very* boring crashmonkey replay.