From: Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Subject: Re: hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption? (was: Re: dm-crypt
 barrier support is effective)
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:18:29 -0600
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On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net> wrote=
:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> Yes, indeed. =C2=A0Is this in the virtualized environment or on real
>> hardware at this point? =C2=A0And how many CPU's do you have configu=
red in
>> your virtualized environment, and how memory memory? =C2=A0Is having=
 a
>> certain number of CPU's critical for reproducing the problem? =C2=A0=
Is
>> constricting the amount of memory important?
>
> Originally, I observed the behavior on really real hardware.
>
> Since then, I have been able to reproduce it in VirtualBox and
> qemu-kvm, with openSUSE 11.3 and KUbuntu. All of the more recent test=
s
> have been with qemu-kvm.
>
> I have one CPU configured in the environment, 512MB of memory.
> I have not done any memory-constriction tests whatsoever.
>
>> It'll be a lot easier if I can reproduce it locally, which is why I'=
m
>> asking all of these questions.
>
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> One experiment --- can you try this with the file system mounted wit=
h
>> data=3Dwriteback, and see if the problem reproduces in that journall=
ing
>> mode?
>
> That test is running now, first with encryption. I will report if it
> shows problems. If it does, I will wait until I have been able to see
> that a few times, and move to a no-encryption test. Typically, I have
> to run quite a few more iterations of that test before problems show
> up (if they will at all).
>
>> I want to rule out (if possible) journal_submit_inode_data_buffers()
>> racing with mpage_da_submit_io(). =C2=A0I don't think that's the iss=
ue, but
>> I'd prefer to do the experiment to make sure. =C2=A0So if you can us=
e a
>> kernel and system configuration which triggers the problem, and then
>> try changing the mount options to include data=3Dwriteback, and then
>> rerun the test, and let me know if the problem still reproduces, I'd
>> be really grateful.

Using 2.6.37-rc5 and data=3Dwriteback,noatime and LUKS encryption I hit
the problem 71 times out of 173.

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Jon
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