linux-kernel - Re: [LTP] [f2fs] 02eb84b96b: ltp.swapon03.fail

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Message-ID: <20210309040144.GH3479805@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 04:01:44 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Weichao Guo <guoweichao@...o.com>
Cc:     rpalethorpe@...e.de, kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
        "huangjianan@...o.com" <huangjianan@...o.com>, lkp@...el.com,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, ltp@...ts.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [f2fs] 02eb84b96b: ltp.swapon03.fail

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:23:35AM +0800, Weichao Guo wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 2021/3/8 19:53, Richard Palethorpe wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > > kern  :err   : [  187.461914] F2FS-fs (sda1): Swapfile does not align to section
> > > commit 02eb84b96bc1b382dd138bf60724edbefe77b025
> > > Author: huangjianan@...o.com <huangjianan@...o.com>
> > > Date:   Mon Mar 1 12:58:44 2021 +0800
> > >      f2fs: check if swapfile is section-alligned
> > >      If the swapfile isn't created by pin and fallocate, it can't be
> > >      guaranteed section-aligned, so it may be selected by f2fs gc. When
> > >      gc_pin_file_threshold is reached, the address of swapfile may change,
> > >      but won't be synchronized to swap_extent, so swap will write to wrong
> > >      address, which will cause data corruption.
> > >      Signed-off-by: Huang Jianan <huangjianan@...o.com>
> > >      Signed-off-by: Guo Weichao <guoweichao@...o.com>
> > >      Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
> > >      Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
> > The test uses fallocate to preallocate the swap file and writes zeros to
> > it. I'm not sure what pin refers to?
> 
> 'pin' refers to pinned file feature in F2FS, the LBA(Logical Block Address)
> of a file is fixed after pinned. Without this operation before fallocate,
> the LBA may not align with section(F2FS GC unit), some LBA of the file may
> be changed by F2FS GC in some extreme cases.
> 
> For this test case, how about pin the swap file before fallocate for F2FS as
> following:
> 
> ioctl(fd, F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE, true);

No special ioctl should be needed.  f2fs_swap_activate() should pin the
file, just like it converts inline inodes and disables compression.