From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs_db: check on-disk structure sizes
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:10:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5695C01F.7030807@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113012945.GC2455@birch.djwong.org>
On 1/12/16 7:29 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:01:22AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:46:44PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>> Check on-disk structure sizes against known values.
>>> Use this to catch inadvertent changes in structure size due to padding
>>> and alignment issues, etc.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> What's the need for this in userspace? Not a big deal really, but it
>> seems like it serves the fundamental purpose sufficiently in the kernel.
>
> The primary point is to make sure that we didn't make any errors with the
> on-disk structures when porting libxfs changes. The kernel build is the first
> line of defense since it tends to big get changes first, but I figure a
> defensive build check for xfsprogs won't harm anyone...
Does it need to actually be in the code?
$ pahole -s fs/xfs/xfs.ko | grep -w "xfs_dsb\|xfs_agf\|xfs_agi\|xfs_agfl"
xfs_agf 224 0
xfs_agfl 40 0
xfs_agi 336 0
xfs_dsb 264 0
pahole needs a binary w/ debuginfo, but maybe this could just be hooked up
in the Makefiles?
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-11 23:46 [PATCH] xfs_db: check on-disk structure sizes Darrick J. Wong
2016-01-12 14:01 ` Brian Foster
2016-01-13 1:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-01-13 3:10 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2016-01-13 5:47 ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-13 6:02 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-01-13 7:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-15 20:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
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