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Message-ID: <20230317130145.gwylox4f2nojz3qg@quack3>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:01:45 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...weicloud.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jack@...e.cz, yi.zhang@...wei.com,
yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] jbd2: continue to record log between each mount
On Fri 17-03-23 17:09:25, Zhang Yi wrote:
> From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
>
> For a newly mounted file system, the journal committing thread always
> record new transactions from the start of the journal area, no matter
> whether the journal was clean or just has been recovered. So the logdump
> code in debugfs cannot dump continuous logs between each mount, it is
> disadvantageous to analysis corrupted file system image and locate the
> file system inconsistency bugs.
>
> If we get a corrupted file system in the running products and want to
> find out what has happened, besides lookup the system log, one effective
> way is to backtrack the journal log. But we may not always run e2fsck
> before each mount and the default fsck -a mode also cannot always
> checkout all inconsistencies, so it could left over some inconsistencies
> into the next mount until we detect it. Finally, transactions in the
> journal may probably discontinuous and some relatively new transactions
> has been covered, it becomes hard to analyse. If we could record
> transactions continuously between each mount, we could acquire more
> useful info from the journal. Like this:
>
> |Previous mount checkpointed/recovered logs|Current mount logs |
> |{------}{---}{--------} ... {------}| ... |{======}{========}...000000|
>
> And yes the journal area is limited and cannot record everything, the
> problematic transaction may also be covered even if we do this, but
> this is still useful for fuzzy tests and short-running products.
>
> This patch save the head blocknr in the superblock after flushing the
> journal or unmounting the file system, let the next mount could continue
> to record new transaction behind it. This change is backward compatible
> because the old kernel does not care about the head blocknr of the
> journal. It is also fine if we mount a clean old image without valid
> head blocknr, we fail back to set it to s_first just like before.
> Finally, for the case of mount an unclean file system, we could also get
> the journal head easily after scanning/replaying the journal, it will
> continue to record new transaction after the recovered transactions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Looks good to me. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Honza
> ---
> fs/jbd2/journal.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> fs/jbd2/recovery.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
> include/linux/jbd2.h | 9 +++++++--
> 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index e80c781731f8..c57ab466fc18 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -1556,8 +1556,21 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal)
> journal->j_first = first;
> journal->j_last = last;
>
> - journal->j_head = journal->j_first;
> - journal->j_tail = journal->j_first;
> + if (journal->j_head != 0 && journal->j_flags & JBD2_CYCLE_RECORD) {
> + /*
> + * Disable the cycled recording mode if the journal head block
> + * number is not correct.
> + */
> + if (journal->j_head < first || journal->j_head >= last) {
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "JBD2: Incorrect Journal head block %lu, "
> + "disable journal_cycle_record\n",
> + journal->j_head);
> + journal->j_head = journal->j_first;
> + }
> + } else {
> + journal->j_head = journal->j_first;
> + }
> + journal->j_tail = journal->j_head;
> journal->j_free = journal->j_last - journal->j_first;
>
> journal->j_tail_sequence = journal->j_transaction_sequence;
> @@ -1729,6 +1742,7 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(journal_t *journal, blk_opf_t write_flags)
>
> sb->s_sequence = cpu_to_be32(journal->j_tail_sequence);
> sb->s_start = cpu_to_be32(0);
> + sb->s_head = cpu_to_be32(journal->j_head);
> if (jbd2_has_feature_fast_commit(journal)) {
> /*
> * When journal is clean, no need to commit fast commit flag and
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
> index 8286a9ec122f..0184931d47f7 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct recovery_info
> {
> tid_t start_transaction;
> tid_t end_transaction;
> + unsigned long head_block;
>
> int nr_replays;
> int nr_revokes;
> @@ -301,11 +302,11 @@ int jbd2_journal_recover(journal_t *journal)
> * is always zero if, and only if, the journal was cleanly
> * unmounted.
> */
> -
> if (!sb->s_start) {
> - jbd2_debug(1, "No recovery required, last transaction %d\n",
> - be32_to_cpu(sb->s_sequence));
> + jbd2_debug(1, "No recovery required, last transaction %d, head block %u\n",
> + be32_to_cpu(sb->s_sequence), be32_to_cpu(sb->s_head));
> journal->j_transaction_sequence = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_sequence) + 1;
> + journal->j_head = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_head);
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -324,6 +325,9 @@ int jbd2_journal_recover(journal_t *journal)
> /* Restart the log at the next transaction ID, thus invalidating
> * any existing commit records in the log. */
> journal->j_transaction_sequence = ++info.end_transaction;
> + journal->j_head = info.head_block;
> + jbd2_debug(1, "JBD2: last transaction %d, head block %lu\n",
> + journal->j_transaction_sequence, journal->j_head);
>
> jbd2_journal_clear_revoke(journal);
> err2 = sync_blockdev(journal->j_fs_dev);
> @@ -364,6 +368,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_skip_recovery(journal_t *journal)
> if (err) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: error %d scanning journal\n", err);
> ++journal->j_transaction_sequence;
> + journal->j_head = journal->j_first;
> } else {
> #ifdef CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
> int dropped = info.end_transaction -
> @@ -373,6 +378,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_skip_recovery(journal_t *journal)
> dropped, (dropped == 1) ? "" : "s");
> #endif
> journal->j_transaction_sequence = ++info.end_transaction;
> + journal->j_head = info.head_block;
> }
>
> journal->j_tail = 0;
> @@ -462,7 +468,7 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
> struct recovery_info *info, enum passtype pass)
> {
> unsigned int first_commit_ID, next_commit_ID;
> - unsigned long next_log_block;
> + unsigned long next_log_block, head_block;
> int err, success = 0;
> journal_superblock_t * sb;
> journal_header_t * tmp;
> @@ -485,6 +491,7 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
> sb = journal->j_superblock;
> next_commit_ID = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_sequence);
> next_log_block = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_start);
> + head_block = next_log_block;
>
> first_commit_ID = next_commit_ID;
> if (pass == PASS_SCAN)
> @@ -809,6 +816,7 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
> if (commit_time < last_trans_commit_time)
> goto ignore_crc_mismatch;
> info->end_transaction = next_commit_ID;
> + info->head_block = head_block;
>
> if (!jbd2_has_feature_async_commit(journal)) {
> journal->j_failed_commit =
> @@ -817,8 +825,10 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
> break;
> }
> }
> - if (pass == PASS_SCAN)
> + if (pass == PASS_SCAN) {
> last_trans_commit_time = commit_time;
> + head_block = next_log_block;
> + }
> brelse(bh);
> next_commit_ID++;
> continue;
> @@ -868,6 +878,8 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
> if (pass == PASS_SCAN) {
> if (!info->end_transaction)
> info->end_transaction = next_commit_ID;
> + if (!info->head_block)
> + info->head_block = head_block;
> } else {
> /* It's really bad news if different passes end up at
> * different places (but possible due to IO errors). */
> diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> index 5962072a4b19..475f135260c9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
> +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> @@ -265,8 +265,10 @@ typedef struct journal_superblock_s
> __u8 s_padding2[3];
> /* 0x0054 */
> __be32 s_num_fc_blks; /* Number of fast commit blocks */
> -/* 0x0058 */
> - __u32 s_padding[41];
> + __be32 s_head; /* blocknr of head of log, only uptodate
> + * while the filesystem is clean */
> +/* 0x005C */
> + __u32 s_padding[40];
> __be32 s_checksum; /* crc32c(superblock) */
>
> /* 0x0100 */
> @@ -1392,6 +1394,9 @@ JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FUNCS(fast_commit, FAST_COMMIT)
> #define JBD2_ABORT_ON_SYNCDATA_ERR 0x040 /* Abort the journal on file
> * data write error in ordered
> * mode */
> +#define JBD2_CYCLE_RECORD 0x080 /* Journal cycled record log on
> + * clean and empty filesystem
> + * logging area */
> #define JBD2_FAST_COMMIT_ONGOING 0x100 /* Fast commit is ongoing */
> #define JBD2_FULL_COMMIT_ONGOING 0x200 /* Full commit is ongoing */
> #define JBD2_JOURNAL_FLUSH_DISCARD 0x0001
> --
> 2.31.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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