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[v2,4/4] populate: punch files after writing to fragment free space properly

Message ID 20191009181848.GG13097@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Darrick J. Wong Oct. 9, 2019, 6:18 p.m. UTC 
From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

The filesystem population code frequently allocates a large file and
punches out every other block ("swiss-cheese files") in an attempt to
cause the creation of a lot of metadata to fill out the btrees.  This
pattern, however, has a subtle bug if the writes to the swiss-cheese
file are not allocated in batches and we're trying to fragment the free
space records in order to achieve a certain metadata btree shape.

This is exactly what happens on a DAX filesystem, since we no longer
have the page cache to stage delalloc writes.  Each xfs_io pwrite call
to the multi-megabyte swiss-chese file turns into multiple 4k pwrites,
which means that file data blocks are allocated 4k at a time.  This can
be fatal to our goal of fragmenting the free space btrees because the
allocator sees a 4k allocation request and uses 4k blocks from the
fragmented parts of the free space to satisfy the "small" request.  When
this happens, the XFS populate function cannot fill out the free space
btree to sufficient height and tests fail.

(In regular delalloc mode we'd cache all those small write() in memory
and try for a single large allocation, which we'd generally get.)

To fix this, we need to force the filesystem to allocate all blocks
before freeing any blocks.  Split the creation of swiss-cheese files
into two parts: (a) writing data to the file to force allocation, and
(b) punching the holes to fragment free space.

This bug affects only XFS but we convert the one ext4 usage anyway.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
---
v2: don't do the weird array side effect thing per hch suggestion
---
 common/populate |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Oct. 11, 2019, 7:52 a.m. UTC | #1 
Thanks, this looks much better:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Patch

diff --git a/common/populate b/common/populate
index 7403dec3..f2953a67 100644
--- a/common/populate
+++ b/common/populate
@@ -22,6 +22,26 @@  _require_xfs_db_blocktrash_z_command() {
 # Attempt to make files of "every" format for data, dirs, attrs etc.
 # (with apologies to Eric Sandeen for mutating xfser.sh)
 
+# Create a file of a given size.
+__populate_create_file() {
+	local sz="$1"
+	local fname="$2"
+
+	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 -W -b 1m 0 $sz" "${fname}"
+}
+
+# Punch out every other hole in this file, if it exists.
+#
+# The goal here is to force the creation of a large number of metadata records
+# by creating a lot of tiny extent mappings in a file.  Callers should ensure
+# that fragmenting the file actually causes record creation.  Call this
+# function /after/ creating all other metadata structures.
+__populate_fragment_file() {
+	local fname="$1"
+
+	test -f "${fname}" && ./src/punch-alternating "${fname}"
+}
+
 # Create a large directory
 __populate_create_dir() {
 	name="$1"
@@ -156,13 +176,12 @@  _scratch_xfs_populate() {
 	# Regular files
 	# - FMT_EXTENTS
 	echo "+ extents file"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x61 0 ${blksz}" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_EXTENTS"
+	__populate_create_file $blksz "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_EXTENTS"
 
 	# - FMT_BTREE
 	echo "+ btree extents file"
 	nr="$((blksz * 2 / 16))"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_BTREE"
-	./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_BTREE"
+	__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_BTREE"
 
 	# Directories
 	# - INLINE
@@ -257,8 +276,7 @@  _scratch_xfs_populate() {
 	# Free space btree
 	echo "+ freesp btree"
 	nr="$((blksz * 2 / 8))"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/BNOBT"
-	./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/BNOBT"
+	__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/BNOBT"
 
 	# Inode btree
 	echo "+ inobt btree"
@@ -280,8 +298,7 @@  _scratch_xfs_populate() {
 	if [ $is_rmapbt -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "+ rmapbt btree"
 		nr="$((blksz * 2 / 24))"
-		$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RMAPBT"
-		./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RMAPBT"
+		__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RMAPBT"
 	fi
 
 	# Realtime Reverse-mapping btree
@@ -289,8 +306,7 @@  _scratch_xfs_populate() {
 	if [ $is_rmapbt -gt 0 ] && [ $is_rt -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "+ rtrmapbt btree"
 		nr="$((blksz * 2 / 32))"
-		$XFS_IO_PROG -f -R -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RTRMAPBT"
-		./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RTRMAPBT"
+		__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RTRMAPBT"
 	fi
 
 	# Reference-count btree
@@ -298,15 +314,21 @@  _scratch_xfs_populate() {
 	if [ $is_reflink -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "+ reflink btree"
 		nr="$((blksz * 2 / 12))"
-		$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT"
+		__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT"
 		cp --reflink=always "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT2"
-		./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT"
 	fi
 
 	# Copy some real files (xfs tests, I guess...)
 	echo "+ real files"
 	test $fill -ne 0 && __populate_fill_fs "${SCRATCH_MNT}" 5
 
+	# Make sure we get all the fragmentation we asked for
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_BTREE"
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/BNOBT"
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RMAPBT"
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/RTRMAPBT"
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/REFCOUNTBT"
+
 	umount "${SCRATCH_MNT}"
 }
 
@@ -333,17 +355,16 @@  _scratch_ext4_populate() {
 	# Regular files
 	# - FMT_INLINE
 	echo "+ inline file"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x61 0 1" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_INLINE"
+	__populate_create_file 1 "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_INLINE"
 
 	# - FMT_EXTENTS
 	echo "+ extents file"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x61 0 ${blksz}" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_EXTENTS"
+	__populate_create_file $blksz "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_EXTENTS"
 
 	# - FMT_ETREE
 	echo "+ extent tree file"
 	nr="$((blksz * 2 / 12))"
-	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x62 0 $((blksz * nr))" "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_ETREE"
-	./src/punch-alternating "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_ETREE"
+	__populate_create_file $((blksz * nr)) "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_ETREE"
 
 	# Directories
 	# - INLINE
@@ -406,6 +427,9 @@  _scratch_ext4_populate() {
 	echo "+ real files"
 	test $fill -ne 0 && __populate_fill_fs "${SCRATCH_MNT}" 5
 
+	# Make sure we get all the fragmentation we asked for
+	__populate_fragment_file "${SCRATCH_MNT}/S_IFREG.FMT_ETREE"
+
 	umount "${SCRATCH_MNT}"
 }