Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754482Ab0LGTfE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:35:04 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]:52480 "EHLO mail-bw0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754352Ab0LGTfC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:35:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1291747731-sup-3099@think> References: <4CF692D1.1010906@redhat.com> <4CF6B3E8.2000406@redhat.com> <20101201212310.GA15648@redhat.com> <20101204193828.GB13871@redhat.com> <20101207142145.GA27861@think> <20101207182243.GB21112@redhat.com> <1291747731-sup-3099@think> From: Jon Nelson Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:34:40 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption? (was: Re: dm-crypt barrier support is effective) To: Chris Mason Cc: Mike Snitzer , Matt , Milan Broz , Andi Kleen , linux-btrfs , dm-devel , Linux Kernel , htd , htejun , linux-ext4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2510 Lines: 69 On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > Excerpts from Jon Nelson's message of 2010-12-07 13:45:14 -0500: >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 07 2010 at  1:10pm -0500, >> > Jon Nelson wrote: >> > >> >> I finally found some time to test this out. With 2.6.37-rc4 (openSUSE >> >> KOTD kernel) I easily encounter the issue. >> >> >> >> Using a virtual machine, I created a stock, minimal openSUSE 11.3 x86_64 >> >> install, installed all updates, installed postgresql and the 'KOTD' >> >> (Kernel of the Day) >> >> kernel, and ran the following tests (as postgres user because I'm >> >> lazy). >> >> >> >> 1. create a database (from bash): >> >> >> >> createdb test >> >> >> >> 2. place the following contents in a file (I used 't.sql'): >> >> >> >> begin; >> >> create temporary table foo as select x as a, ARRAY[x] as b FROM >> >> generate_series(1, 10000000 ) AS x; >> >> create index foo_a_idx on foo (a); >> >> create index foo_b_idx on foo USING GIN (b); >> >> rollback; >> >> >> >> 3. execute that sql: >> >> >> >> psql -f t.sql --echo-all test >> >> >> >> >> >> With 2.6.34.7 I can re-run [3] all day long, as many times as I want, >> >> without issue. >> >> >> >> With 2.6.37-rc4-13 (the currently-installed KOTD kernel) if tails >> >> pretty frequently. >> > >> > How does it fail?  postgres errors?  kernel errors? >> >> postgresql errors. Typically, header corruption but from the limited >> visibility I've had into this via strace, what I see is zeroed pages >> where there shouldn't be. > > This sounds a lot like a bug higher up than dm-crypt.  Zeros tend to > come from some piece of code explicitly filling a page with zeros, and > that often happens in the corner cases for O_DIRECT and a few other > places in the filesystem. > > Have you tried triggering this with a regular block device? I just tried the whole set of tests, but with /dev/sdb directly (as ext4) without any crypt-y bits. It takes more iterations but out of 6 tests I had one failure: same type of thing, 'invalid page header in block ....'. I can't guarantee that it is a full-page of zeroes, just what I saw from the (limited) stracing I did. -- Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/