Re: Linux swap file not activating after reboot

[Michael Ruiz <michael@mruiz.dev>]

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On Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:43:29 PM PST you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 07:55:39PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:34:02PM -0800, Michael Ruiz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >  I have a //@swap subvolume and i have a swapfile within it. I mount the
> > > 
> > > subvolume like such in fstab:
> > > 
> > > `rw,ssd,nofail,noautodefrag,nodatacow,nodatasum,subvolid=1234,subvol=/@s
> > > wap`
> > > 
> > > It mounts correctly, but 1/15/20 4:20 PM kernel I get:
> > > 
> > > `BTRFS warning (device dm-0): swapfile must not be copy-on-write`
> > 
> > There are two reasons why the message is printed, one is when the file
> > does not have the C attribute and another one when the the existing file
> > extents need to be COWed (same case as if the file is NOCOW and has been
> > snapshotted).
> > 
> > Plain reboot will not change the C attribute, so either there's a
> > snapshot of /@snap or the check of a used swapfile is wrong.
> > 
> > I tested it here, a swapfile that got almost full after a stress test,
> > followed by reboot and swapon (without any change to the file) was ok.
> > 
> > Doing a snapshot and swapon resulted in the message you saw.
> > 
> > After deleting the snapshot and waiting until it gets cleaned, swapon
> > did not activate the file anymore. Filefrag or fiemap don't report any
> > shared extents so here I' expect that the file should be in a valid
> > state for swapon.
> > 
> > Omar, any ideas?
> 
> Hm, we're hitting this check in can_nocow_extent():
> 
>         if (btrfs_file_extent_generation(leaf, fi) <=
>             btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item))
> 
> That check was added in 78d4295b1eee ("btrfs: lift some
> btrfs_cross_ref_exist checks in nocow path") as an optimization. Even if
> we comment that out, we'll hit the similar check in
> btrfs_cross_ref_exist():
> 
>         /* If extent created before last snapshot => it's definitely shared
> */ if (btrfs_extent_generation(leaf, ei) <=
>             btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item))
> 
> That's not quite right in exactly this case that the snapshot has been
> deleted. Apparently we've been doing unnecessary COW for this case. I'll
> need to think about how to safely avoid these checks without too much of
> a performance hit.
> 
> Thanks for the report!

My solution was to boot into an arch live usb, unlock my dmcrypt partition and 
mount the btrfs partition to /mnt. After that I created a subvolume on the @ 
directory (top level 5) instead of a subvolume of my root (/) partition. 
So now my subvolume layout is like this:

ID 256 gen 45343 top level 5 path @
ID 257 gen 45346 top level 5 path @home
ID 258 gen 45346 top level 5 path @log
ID 259 gen 44303 top level 5 path @srv
ID 260 gen 44650 top level 5 path @pkg
ID 261 gen 45346 top level 5 path @tmp
ID 1607 gen 43963 top level 5 path @swap

The strange thing to me is that I didn't ask for snapshots of this subvolume, 
although I do keep snapshots of my / directory, I was under the impression 
that snapshots would not be recursive and go into the /swap subvolume. I can 
also confirm I had the +C attribute while getting this error. So now I am able 
to mount this subvolume with it's own options, whereas before I guess it 
inherited options from the root dir which has CoW enabled. The problem is now 
resolved by doing this. Thanks for the responses.




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