On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:10:50PM +0530, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> On Friday 17 Jul 2015 06:16:02 Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:56:43AM -0400, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> > > When running generic/311 on Btrfs' subpagesize-blocksize patchset (on
> > > ppc64
> > > with 4k sectorsize and 16k node/leaf size) I noticed the following call
> > > trace,
> > > 
> > > BTRFS (device dm-0): parent transid verify failed on 29720576 wanted 160
> > > found 158 BTRFS (device dm-0): parent transid verify failed on 29720576
> > > wanted 160 found 158 BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -5)
> > > 
> > > WARNING: at /root/repos/linux/fs/btrfs/super.c:260
> > > Modules linked in:
> > > CPU: 3 PID: 30769 Comm: umount Tainted: G        W    L
> > > 4.0.0-rc5-11671-g8b82e73e #63 task: c000000079aaddb0 ti: c000000079a48000
> > > task.ti: c000000079a48000 NIP: c000000000499aa0 LR: c000000000499a9c CTR:
> > > c000000000779630
> > > REGS: c000000079a4b480 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G        W   L  
> > > (4.0.0-rc5-11671-g8b82e73e) MSR: 8000000100029032 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> 
> > > CR: 28008828  XER: 20000000 CFAR: c000000000a23914 SOFTE: 1
> > > GPR00: c000000000499a9c c000000079a4b700 c00000000103bdf8 0000000000000025
> > > GPR04: 0000000000000001 0000000000000502 c00000000107e918 0000000000000cda
> > > GPR08: 0000000000000007 0000000000000007 0000000000000001 c0000000010f5044
> > > GPR12: 0000000028008822 c00000000fdc0d80 0000000020000000 0000000010152e00
> > > GPR16: 0000010002979380 0000000010140724 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> > > GPR20: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> > > GPR24: c0000000151f61a8 0000000000000000 c000000055e5e800 c000000000aac270
> > > GPR28: 00000000000004a4 fffffffffffffffb c000000055e5e800 c0000000679204d0
> > > NIP [c000000000499aa0] .__btrfs_abort_transaction+0x180/0x190
> > > LR [c000000000499a9c] .__btrfs_abort_transaction+0x17c/0x190
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [c000000079a4b700] [c000000000499a9c]
> > > .__btrfs_abort_transaction+0x17c/0x190 (unreliable) [c000000079a4b7a0]
> > > [c000000000541678] .__btrfs_run_delayed_items+0xe8/0x220
> > > [c000000079a4b850] [c0000000004d5b3c]
> > > .btrfs_commit_transaction+0x37c/0xca0 [c000000079a4b960]
> > > [c00000000049824c] .btrfs_sync_fs+0x6c/0x1a0
> > > [c000000079a4ba00] [c000000000255270] .sync_filesystem+0xd0/0x100
> > > [c000000079a4ba80] [c000000000218070] .generic_shutdown_super+0x40/0x170
> > > [c000000079a4bb10] [c000000000218598] .kill_anon_super+0x18/0x30
> > > [c000000079a4bb90] [c000000000498418] .btrfs_kill_super+0x18/0xc0
> > > [c000000079a4bc10] [c000000000218ac8] .deactivate_locked_super+0x98/0xe0
> > > [c000000079a4bc90] [c00000000023e744] .cleanup_mnt+0x54/0xa0
> > > [c000000079a4bd10] [c0000000000b7d14] .task_work_run+0x114/0x150
> > > [c000000079a4bdb0] [c000000000015f84] .do_notify_resume+0x74/0x80
> > > [c000000079a4be30] [c000000000009838] .ret_from_except_lite+0x64/0x68
> > > Instruction dump:
> > > ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4bfffb28 60000000 3ce2ffcd 38e7e818 4bffffbc 3c62ffd2
> > > 7fa4eb78 3863b808 48589e1d 60000000 <0fe00000> 4bfffedc 60000000 60000000
> > > BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in __btrfs_run_delayed_items:1188: errno=-5 IO
> > > failure
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The call trace is seen when executing _run_test() for the 8th time.
> > > The above trace is actually a false-positive failure as indicated below,
> > > 
> > >  fsync-tester
> > >  
> > >    fsync(fd)
> > >    Write delayed inode item to fs tree
> > >    
> > >      (assume transid to be 160)
> > >      (assume tree block to start at logical address 29720576)
> > >  
> > >  md5sum $testfile
> > >  
> > >    This causes a delayed inode to be added
> > >  
> > >  Load flakey table
> > >  
> > >    i.e. drop writes that are initiated from now onwards
> > >  
> > >  Unmount filesystem
> > >  
> > >    btrfs_sync_fs is invoked
> > >    
> > >      Write 29720576 metadata block to disk
> > >      free_extent_buffer(29720576)
> > >      
> > >        release_extent_buffer(29720576)
> > >    
> > >    Start writing delayed inode
> > >    
> > >      Traverse the fs tree
> > >      
> > >        (assume the parent tree block of 29720576 is still in memory)
> > >        When reading 29720576 from disk, parent's blkptr will have
> > >        generation
> > >        set to 160. But the on-disk tree block will have an older
> > >        generation (say, 158). Transid verification fails and hence the
> > >        transaction gets aborted
> > > 
> > > The test only cares about the FS instance before the unmount
> > > operation (i.e. the synced FS). Hence to get the test to pass, ignore the
> > > false-positive trace that could be generated.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chan...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  tests/generic/311 | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/tests/generic/311 b/tests/generic/311
> > > index d21b6eb..cd6391d 100755
> > > --- a/tests/generic/311
> > > +++ b/tests/generic/311
> > > @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ _require_xfs_io_command "falloc"
> > > 
> > >  [ -x $here/src/fsync-tester ] || _notrun "fsync-tester not built"
> > > 
> > > +_disable_dmesg_check
> > > +
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't think this is something we'd want to do unconditionally.
> > E.g., if something hits the logs for xfs or ext4, we probably want to
> > hear about it.
> Sorry, I forgot that I was dealing with generic tests. I agree with what you
> say.
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps check that the fs is btrfs and possibly the fs params are such
> > that the known warning occurs..? I'd defer to the btrfs folks on how
> > best to check that, so long as it doesn't affect other fs'.
> >
> The above trace is independent of any Btrfs parameters. Its just that it was
> easily reproducible on ppc64 with the subpagesize-blocksize patchset
> applied. So IMHO disabling call trace check when testing Btrfs filesystem is
> the way to go. But again, as you said, we can wait for comments from other
> Btrfs devs.

As a general principle, we don't disable warnings/errors in tests
just to make tests pass.  The bug in the code being tested should be
fixed so the warning/error is not generated. If you do not want
to see the error, then expung the test from your
subpagesize-blocksize test runs.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
da...@fromorbit.com
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