RE: [PATCH] btrfs file write debugging patch

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So it works well now with the two patches from Chris on your system. Am I right?

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> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:21:36 -0600
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs file write debugging patch
> From: mitch.harder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: thierryzhong@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx; xin.zhong@xxxxxxxxx; linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Mitch Harder
>  wrote:
> > 2011/3/4 Xin Zhong :
> >>
> >> It works well for me too.
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >>> From: chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>> To: chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>> CC: xin.zhong@xxxxxxxxx; mitch.harder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; thierryzhong@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Subject: RE: [PATCH] btrfs file write debugging patch
> >>> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:19:39 -0500
> >>>
> >>> Excerpts from Chris Mason's message of 2011-03-03 20:51:55 -0500:
> >>> > Excerpts from Zhong, Xin's message of 2011-03-02 05:58:49 -0500:
> >>> > > It seems that if we give an unaligned address to btrfs write and the buffer reside on more than 2 pages. It will trigger this bug.
> >>> > > If we give an aligned address to btrfs write, it works well no matter how many pages are given.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I use ftrace to observe it. It seems iov_iter_fault_in_readable do not trigger pagefault handling when the address is not aligned. I do not quite understand the reason behind it. But the solution should be to process the page one by one. And that's also what generic file write routine does.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Any suggestion are welcomed. Thanks!
> >>> >
> >>> > Great job guys. I'm using this on top of my debugging patch. It passes
> >>> > the unaligned test but I'll give it a real run tonight and look for
> >>> > other problems.
> >>> >
> >>> > (This is almost entirely untested, please don't use it quite yet)
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > -chris
> >>> >
> >>> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> >>> > index 89a6a26..6a44add 100644
> >>> > --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> >>> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> >>> > @@ -1039,6 +1038,14 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
> >>> >
> >>> > copied = btrfs_copy_from_user(pos, num_pages,
> >>> > write_bytes, pages, &i);
> >>> > +
> >>> > + /*
> >>> > + * if we have trouble faulting in the pages, fall
> >>> > + * back to one page at a time
> >>> > + */
> >>> > + if (copied < write_bytes)
> >>> > + nrptrs = 1;
> >>> > +
> >>> > if (copied == 0)
> >>> > dirty_pages = 0;
> >>> > else
> >>>
> >>> Ok, this is working well for me. Anyone see any problems with it?
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > I've applied this patch on top of the debugging patch at the head of
> > the thread, and I'm having trouble building gcc now.
> >
> > When building gcc-4.4.5, I get errors like the following:
> >
> > Comparing stages 2 and 3
> > Bootstrap comparison failure!
> > ./cp/call.o differs
> > ./cp/decl.o differs
> > ./cp/pt.o differs
> > ./cp/class.o differs
> > ./cp/decl2.o differs
> > <....snip.....>
> > ./matrix-reorg.o differs
> > ./tree-inline.o differs
> > ./gcc.o differs
> > ./gcc-options.o differs
> > make[2]: *** [compare] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [stage3-bubble] Error 2
> > make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
> > emake failed
> >
> > I've went back and rebuilt my kernel without these two debugging
> > patches, and gcc-4.4.5 builds without error on that kernel.
> >
> > I haven't yet tested building gcc-4.4.5 with just the debugging patch
> > at the head of the thread, so I'll test that, and report back.
> >
> > But I was wondering if anybody else can replicate this issue.
> >
> > BTW, I've been doing most of my testing on an x86 system.  My x86_64
> > systems haven't had as much trouble, but I haven't been robustingly
> > checking my x86_64 systems for these issues.
> >
> > I noticed that page fault handling is different by architecture.
> >
>
> Some followup...
>
> I'm encountering this issue with "Bootstrap comparison failure!" in a
> gcc-4.4.5 build when only the patch at the head of the thread is
> applied (leaving the recent patch to limit pages to one-by-one on page
> fault out).
>
> I just hadn't run across this issue until I started playing with
> patches to limit the pages to one-by-one on page fault errors.
>
> So it may not be associated with the last patch.
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