Message-ID: <ZPhyv7cHxO9vbciL@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 13:38:23 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Zorro Lang <zlang@...nel.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, fstests@...r.kernel.org,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [fstests generic/388, 455, 475, 482 ...] Ext4 journal recovery
 test fails

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 04:33:35PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 02:08:19AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >> #regzbot introduced: 8147c4c4546f9f05ef03bb839b741473b28bb560 ^
> >> 
> >> OK, I've isolated the regression of generic/455 failing with ext4/1k
> >> to this commit, which came in via the mm tree.  Nothing seems
> >> *obviously* wrong, but I'm not sure if there are any differences in
> >> the semantics of the new folio functions such as kmap_local_folio,
> >> offset_in_folio, set_folio_bh() which might be making a difference.
> >
> > Thanks for the cc,  Let's see what we can do ...
> >
> > virt_to_folio() - For an order-0 page, there is no difference.
> > offset_in_folio() - Ditto
> > bh->b_page vs bh->b_folio - Ditto
> > virt_to_folio() - Ditto
> > folio_set_bh() - Ditto
> >
> > kmap_local_folio() vs kmap_atomic - Here, we have a difference.
> > memcpy_from_folio() - Same difference as above.
> >
> > I suppose it must be this, and yet I cannot understand how it would
> > make a difference.  Perhaps you can help me?
> >
> > static inline void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
> > {
> >         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> >                 migrate_disable();
> >         else
> >                 preempt_disable();
> >
> >         pagefault_disable();
> >         return __kmap_local_page_prot(page, prot);
> > }
> >
> > vs
> >
> > static inline void *kmap_local_folio(struct folio *folio, size_t offset)
> > {
> >         struct page *page = folio_page(folio, offset / PAGE_SIZE);
> >         return __kmap_local_page_prot(page, kmap_prot) + offset % PAGE_SIZE;
> > }
> >
> > I don't believe that returning the address with the offset included
> > is the problem here.  It must be disabling preemption / migration.
> > There's no chace this funcation accesses userspace (... is there?) so
> > it can't be the pagefault_disable().
> >
> > We can try splitting this up into tiny commits and figuring out which
> > of them is the problem.  I'll be back at work tomorrow and can look
> > more deeply then.
> >
> >> Using kvm-xfstests[1] I bisected this via the command:
> >> 
> >> % install-kconfig ; kbuild ; kvm-xfstests -c ext4/1k -C 10 generic/455
> >> 
> >> [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md
> >> 
> >> 
> >> And the bisection pointed me at this commit:
> >> 
> >>     commit 8147c4c4546f9f05ef03bb839b741473b28bb560 (refs/bisect/bad)
> >>     Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> >>     AuthorDate: Thu Jul 13 04:55:11 2023 +0100
> >>     Commit: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> >>     CommitDate: Fri Aug 18 10:12:30 2023 -0700
> >> 
> >>         jbd2: use a folio in jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer()
> >>     
> 
> This is inline with my observation too. 
> 
> However, is this log expected with below diff when running with ext4/1k?
> I am finding a folio with order > 0 here.
> 
> <diff>
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index 768fa05bcbed..152c08e83fa2 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
>                 new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, jh2bh(jh_in)->b_data);
>         }
> 
> +       if (folio_size(new_folio) > PAGE_SIZE) {
> +               pr_crit("%s: folio_size=%lu, folio_order=%d, new_offset=%u bh_size=%lu folio_test_large=%d\n",
> +                       __func__, folio_size(new_folio), folio_order(new_folio), new_offset,
> +                       bh_in->b_size, folio_test_large(new_folio));
> +       }
> +
>         mapped_data = kmap_local_folio(new_folio, new_offset);
>         /*
>          * Fire data frozen trigger if data already wasn't frozen.  Do this
> 
> <dmesg log>
> [   40.419772] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=0 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.444737] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=2048 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.472385] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=3072 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.560581] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=8192 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.588512] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=10240 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.612103] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=7168 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.636800] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=9216 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> [   40.661166] jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer: folio_size=16384, folio_order=2, new_offset=10240 bh_size=1024 folio_test_large=1
> 
> 
> Is this code path a possibility, which can cause above logs?
> 
>    ptr = jbd2_alloc() -> kmem_cache_alloc()
>    <..>
>    new_folio = virt_to_folio(ptr)
>    new_offset = offset_in_folio(new_folio, ptr)
> 
> And then I am still not sure what the problem really is? 
> Is it because at the time of checkpointing, the path is still not fully
> converted to folio?

Oh yikes!  I didn't know that the allocation might come from kmalloc!
Yes, slab might use high-order allocations.  I'll have to look through
this and figure out what the problem might be.

Thanks for debugging this.

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