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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2014 18:01:57 +0300
From:	roma1390 <roma1390@...il.com>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Morgan Mears <Morgan.Mears@...app.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	Joe Thornber <ejt@...hat.com>,
	Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: 3.13-1 dm cache possible race condition

Hello again,

Is there need any additional information? Or this feature is not ready
for production?


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:31 PM, roma1390 <roma1390@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> Tried this on latest head: 14186fea0cb06bc43181ce239efe0df6f1af260a
>
> Getting same error. If there is needed some additional information,
> please contact.
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:35 PM, roma1390 <roma1390@...il.com> wrote:
>> I think that somehow is got broken cache->nr_dirty
>>
>> # dmsetup status foo0
>> 0 32768 cache 7/4096 1728240 256 1675650 0 0 64 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>>
>>
>> See: 4294967295 this is -1 as is not OK.
>>
>>
>> Kernel: Debian stock 3.13-1-amd64
>>
>> Actions taken:
>>
>>  modprobe brd
>>  BLOCKS=$[`blockdev --getsize64 /dev/ram0`/512]
>>  METADATA_DEV=/dev/ram0
>>  CACHE_DEV=/dev/ram1
>>  DATA_DEV=/dev/ram2
>>  dmsetup create foo0 --table "0 $BLOCKS cache $METADATA_DEV $CACHE_DEV
>> $DATA_DEV 512 1 writeback default 0"
>>
>> Test:
>> one terminal window:
>>   while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/foo0 bs=512; done
>> second window:
>>   while sleep .1; do dmsetup status foo0; done
>>
>>
>> after some time from 0 i get to 4294967295, which is think is not
>> expected value.
>>
>>
>> More info:
>> device just created:
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 1728259 256 1675650 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> after some (~20) writes:
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 1790456 256 1737543 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> started full speed test, after 2 sec:
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2475934 256 2417479 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2485872 256 2428545 0 0 0 64 5 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2495964 256 2437959 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2506447 256 2447365 0 0 0 64 20 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2515948 256 2458439 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2526687 256 2466631 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> after ~10sec:
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2667754 256 2609991 0 0 0 64 0 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2678571 256 2618183 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2687846 256 2630471 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2698349 256 2638663 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2708082 256 2648514 0 0 0 64 5 1 writeback 2
>> migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2717700 256 2659143 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2728596 256 2667335 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> 0 32768 cache 10/4096 2737453 256 2679623 0 0 0 64 4294967295 1
>> writeback 2 migration_threshold 2048 4 random_threshold 4
>> sequential_threshold 512
>> ^C
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