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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] xfs: debug mode forced buffered write failure
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:55:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160301125516.GB3540@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456756170-51248-2-git-send-email-bfoster@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> Add a DEBUG mode-only sysfs knob to enable forced buffered write
> failure. An additional side effect of this mode is brute force killing
> of delayed allocation blocks in the range of the write. The latter is
> the prime motiviation behind this patch, as userspace test
> infrastructure requires a reliable mechanism to create and split
> delalloc extents without causing extent conversion.
> 
> Certain fallocate operations (i.e., zero range) were used for this in
> the past, but the implementations have changed such that delalloc
> extents are flushed and converted to real blocks, rendering the test
> useless.

Looks harmless, but I'd add a inline function to check for the failed
writes field so that we can compile it away entirely for !DEBUG builds.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29 14:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] fix up indlen reservations on extent split Brian Foster
2016-02-29 14:29 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] xfs: debug mode forced buffered write failure Brian Foster
2016-03-01 12:55   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-03-01 13:10     ` Brian Foster
2016-02-29 14:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: update icsb freeblocks counter after extent deletion Brian Foster
2016-03-01 12:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-29 14:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: borrow indirect blocks from freed extent when available Brian Foster
2016-03-01 13:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-01 13:11     ` Brian Foster
2016-02-29 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] fix up indlen reservations on extent split Brian Foster

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