[4/4] generic/081: don't run on DAX capable devices

Commit Message

Dave Chinner May 16, 2022, 8:59 a.m. UTC

From: Dave Chinner <[e-mail]>

LVM/DM has conniptions when you try to use snapshots on a device
that has DAX capability. It first sets up the underlying device as a
DAX capable mapping (type 3 or DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED) but because
snapshots require COW and shared mappings, it isn't supported on DAX
capable devices. Hence creating the snapshot device fails because it
requires a type 1 (DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED) device and DM can't change
types on a loaded mapping.

Hence we get this obscure error message in the log:

device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type (old=3 vs new=1) after initial table load.

and these obscure, unhelpful error messages from the LVM command
outputs:

  device-mapper: reload ioctl on  (251:0) failed: Invalid argument
  Failed to suspend logical volume vg_081/base_081.
  Device vg_081-base_081-real (251:1) is used by another device.
  Failed to revert logical volume vg_081/base_081.
  Aborting. Manual intervention required.
Failed to create snapshot

How to turn off DAX capability is not documented in dmsetup or LVM
man pages, nor is dax mentioned anywhere in
Documentation/admin/device-mapper/ so I have no idea how to tell
LVM/DM "don't try to enable DAX support!".

As such, if the uderlying block device is dax capable, skip this
test.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[e-mail]>
---
 common/rc | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index 4201a059..f5ead044 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -2167,7 +2167,7 @@  _require_sane_bdev_flush()
 #	3. "dax=inode" or nothing means "use scratch dev capability" to
 #	    determine whether DAX is going to be used.
 #
-# Returns 0 if DAX will be used, 1 if DAX is not going to be used.
+# Returns 0 if the filesytem will use DAX, 1 if it won't.
 __scratch_uses_fsdax()
 {
 	local ops=$(_normalize_mount_options "$MOUNT_OPTIONS")
@@ -2175,9 +2175,19 @@  __scratch_uses_fsdax()
 	echo $ops | egrep -qw "dax(=always| |$)" && return 0
 	echo $ops | grep -qw "dax=never" && return 1
 
+	return 0
+}
+
+# Determine if the scratch device is DAX capable. Every if the fs is not
+# using DAX, we still can't use certain device mapper targets if the block
+# device is DAX capable. hence the check needs to be separat from the FS
+# capability.
+__scratch_dev_has_dax()
+{
 	local sysfs="/sys/block/$(_short_dev $SCRATCH_DEV)"
 	test -e "${sysfs}/dax" && return 0
 	test "$(cat "${sysfs}/queue/dax" 2>/dev/null)" = "1" && return 0
+
 	return 1
 }
 
@@ -2194,15 +2204,18 @@  _require_dm_target()
 	_require_sane_bdev_flush $SCRATCH_DEV
 	_require_command "$DMSETUP_PROG" dmsetup
 
-	if __scratch_uses_fsdax; then
-		case $target in
-		stripe|linear|log-writes)
-			;;
-		*)
-			_notrun "Cannot run tests with DAX on $target devices."
-			;;
-		esac
-	fi
+	case $target in
+	stripe|linear|log-writes)
+		;;
+	*)
+		if __scratch_uses_fsdax; then
+			_notrun "Cannot run tests with fsdax on $target devices."
+		fi
+		if __scratch_dev_has_dax; then
+			_notrun "Cannot use $target devices on DAX capable block devices."
+		fi
+		;;
+	esac
 
 	modprobe dm-$target >/dev/null 2>&1