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I've been observing periodic corruption reports from xfs_scrub involving the free rt extent counter (frextents) while running xfs/141. That test uses an error injection knob to induce a torn write to the log, and an arbitrary number of recovery mounts, frextents will count fewer free rt extents than can be found the rtbitmap. The root cause of the problem is a combination of the misuse of sb_frextents in the incore mount to reflect both incore reservations made by running transactions as well as the actual count of free rt extents on disk. The following sequence can reproduce the undercount: Thread 1 Thread 2 xfs_trans_alloc(rtextents=3) xfs_mod_frextents(-3) <blocks> xfs_attr_set() xfs_bmap_attr_addfork() xfs_add_attr2() xfs_log_sb() xfs_sb_to_disk() xfs_trans_commit() <log flushed to disk> <log goes down> Note that thread 1 subtracts 3 from sb_frextents even though it never commits to using that space. Thread 2 writes the undercounted value to the ondisk superblock and logs it to the xattr transaction, which is then flushed to disk. At next mount, log recovery will find the logged superblock and write that back into the filesystem. At the end of log recovery, we reread the superblock and install the recovered undercounted frextents value into the incore superblock. From that point on, we've effectively leaked thread 1's transaction reservation. The correct fix for this is to separate the incore reservation from the ondisk usage, but that's a matter for the next patch. Because the kernel has been logging superblocks with undercounted frextents for a very long time and we don't demand that sysadmins run xfs_repair after a crash, fix the undercount by recomputing frextents after log recovery. Gating this on log recovery is a reasonable balance (I think) between correcting the problem and slowing down every mount attempt. Note that xfs_repair will fix undercounted frextents. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.