From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754249Ab2KVWZS (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:25:18 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37444 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754026Ab2KVSfz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:35:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:12:40 +0100 From: Jan Kara To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: NeilBrown , Jan Kara , axboe@kernel.dk, lucho@ionkov.net, ericvh@gmail.com, tytso@mit.edu, rminnich@sandia.gov, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, martin.petersen@oracle.com, david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, bharrosh@panasas.com, jlayton@samba.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ext3: Warn if mounting rw on a disk requiring stable page writes Message-ID: <20121122091240.GA11154@quack.suse.cz> References: <20121121020027.10225.43206.stgit@blackbox.djwong.org> <20121121020056.10225.15220.stgit@blackbox.djwong.org> <20121121021543.GI10507@quack.suse.cz> <20121121211319.GA32202@blackbox.djwong.org> <20121121213333.GF30250@quack.suse.cz> <20121122084713.69e5b1fc@notabene.brown> <20121122014755.GH8740@blackbox.djwong.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121122014755.GH8740@blackbox.djwong.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 21-11-12 17:47:55, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:47:13AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:33:33 +0100 Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > On Wed 21-11-12 13:13:19, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:15:43AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > On Tue 20-11-12 18:00:56, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > > > > ext3 doesn't properly isolate pages from changes during writeback. Since the > > > > > > recommended fix is to use ext4, for now we'll just print a warning if the user > > > > > > tries to mount in write mode. > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong > > > > > > --- > > > > > > fs/ext3/super.c | 8 ++++++++ > > > > > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c > > > > > > index 5366393..5b3725d 100644 > > > > > > --- a/fs/ext3/super.c > > > > > > +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c > > > > > > @@ -1325,6 +1325,14 @@ static int ext3_setup_super(struct super_block *sb, struct ext3_super_block *es, > > > > > > "forcing read-only mode"); > > > > > > res = MS_RDONLY; > > > > > > } > > > > > > + if (!read_only && > > > > > > + queue_requires_stable_pages(bdev_get_queue(sb->s_bdev))) { > > > > > > + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, > > > > > > + "error: ext3 cannot safely write data to a disk " > > > > > > + "requiring stable pages writes; forcing read-only " > > > > > > + "mode. Upgrading to ext4 is recommended."); > > > > > > + res = MS_RDONLY; > > > > > > + } > > > > > > if (read_only) > > > > > > return res; > > > > > > if (!(sbi->s_mount_state & EXT3_VALID_FS)) > > > > > Why this? ext3 should be fixed by your change to > > > > > filemap_page_mkwrite()... Or does testing show otherwise? > > > > > > > > Yes, it's still broken even with this new set of changes. Now that I think > > > > about it a little more, I recall that writeback mode was actually fine, so this > > > > is a little harsh. > > > > > > > > Hm... looking at the ordered code a little more, it looks like > > > > ext3_ordered_write_end is calling journal_dirty_data_fn, which (I guess?) tries > > > > to write mapped buffers back through the journal? Taking it out seems to fix > > > > ordered mode, though I have a suspicion that it might very well break ordered > > > > mode too. > > > Oh, right. kjournald writing buffers directly (without setting > > > PageWriteback) will break things. So please, change warning to: > > Maybe we should just fix this anyway? > > I still have the patch that adds PG_stable (and changes the > wait_for_page_stable() test to use this flag instead of PG_writeback) kicking > around in my tree. I wrote a patch to jbd that changes journal_do_submit_data > to set PG_stable, call clear_page_dirty_for_io(), and unsets the stable bit in > the end_io processing. > > It seems to get rid of the checksum-after-write errors, though I'm not > convinced it's correct. But, I'll send both patches along. I'll check the patches. Fixing PageWriteback logic for ext3 is not easily doable due to lock ranking constraints - PageWriteback has to be set under PageLocked but that ranks above transaction start so kjournald cannot grab page locks so it cannot set PageWriteback... And changing the lock ordering is a major surgery. What could be doable is waiting for buffer locks from ext3's ->write_begin and ->page_mkwrite implementations in case stable writes are required. If your approach with a separate page bit doesn't work out (and I have some doubts about that as mm people are *really* thrifty with page bits). > > > /* > > > * In data=ordered mode, kjournald writes buffers without setting > > > * PageWriteback bit thus generic code does not properly wait for > > > * writeback of those buffers to finish. > > > */ > > > if (!read_only && > > > test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA && > > test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) != EXT3_MOUNT_WRITEBACK_DATA > > since I bet data=journal mode is also borken wrt PageWriteback. It is broken wrt PageWriteback but it actually waits for buffer locks in ->write_begin() so at least write path should be properly protected. But mmap is not handled properly there (although that wouldn't be that hard to fix). So I agree the condition should rather be what you suggest. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR