Re: [PATCH 0/5] xfsprogs-4.17: mkfs config file enhancements

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 08:16:02PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:59:09AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 07:46:40PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > a) a set of config files we know should work and ensure they produce the
> > >    same filesystem as if we had used CLI params. We can use xfs_db -c version
> > >    against both filesystems and check that each differences. Since this would
> > >    use the same xfsprogs for the results of a config based filesystem and
> > >    the CLI based filesystem the diff would only generate if there really
> > >    was a change between both runs, and you can use any xfsprogs version
> > >    for it.
> > 
> > Hmm, just out of curiosity, are there any mkfs cli/config options that
> > do /not/ show up in the output of mkfs and/or 'xfs_db -c info'?
> 
> A good question indeed. But more importantly, how could we verify that in
> the future automatically?
> 
> > >    It does however leave actual expected results on the filesystem up to
> > >    a separate test, it assumes that xfs/191-input-validation is doing its
> > >    job, but word is that needs some love.
> > > 
> > > b) a set of invalid config files and ensure they never work
> > 
> > Agreed, I have some twisty ones of my own, 
> 
> Great!
> 
> > though fixing them requires some amount of sscanf format string tweaking. :)
> 
> Oh fun, so we can have the test fail for the get go. Note that at one point
> of parser evolution we may get to the point of actually reaching a point of
> it being more better to just embrace a library. But in terms of size and
> maintenance due to the simplicity of what we need to parse we were just not
> there yet.

[future babble]

It's not /that/ much tweaking.  First a function that trims leading and
trailing whitespace, then cuts off the string at the first '#' (so we
can have eol-comments anywhere).

Section headers:
n = sscanf(line, " [ %m[^] \f\n\r\t\v] %ms %m[^\n]", &tag, &cp, &junk);

We pick up the section name (in *tag) if cp == "]" and n == 2 (i.e.
there's no junk at the end of the line.

"# some comment"
"[data]"
"[data] # some comment"
" [data]"
"[ data]"
"[data ]"
"[data] "
<repeat but with tabs instead of spaces>

"[data] noalign = 1"
"[data cow]"
"[data"
"data]"
" [data cow]"
"[ data cow]"
"[data cow]"
"[data cow ]"
"[data cow] "
"[data.cow]"
"[data noalign = 1]"
"[nonexistentsection]"

Key/value:

n = sscanf(line, " %m[^][ \f\n\r\t\v=] %m[=] %m[^\n]", &key, &eq, &val);

We pick up the key/value pair if n == 3, eq == "]" and *key is found in
the current section header, and if *val can be stroull'd.

Assuming a [data] section,

"# some comment"
"noalign=1"
"noalign=1 # some comment"
" noalign=1"
"noalign =1"
"noalign= 1"
"noalign=1 "
" noalign =1"
" noalign= 1"
" noalign=1 "
"noalign = 1"
"noalign =1 "
"noalign= 1 "
" noalign = 1"
" noalign= 1 "
"noalign = 1 "
<repeat with tabs>

"noalign moo = 1"
"noalign is 1"
"noalign = 10"
"noalign = 109825091285091825091285018250"
"noalign = [metadata]"
"moocow"
"moocow = 5"

etc.  So long as we tag it EXPERIMENTAL I don't have a problem with
landing the current code as-is for 4.17.

> Let's recall that sharing the profile parser from e2fsprogs was the smallest,
> but libini_config the more generic one.
> 
> If you want to experiment with them:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/mcgrof/libini_config-demo.git
> https://gitlab.com/mcgrof/libekprofile.git
> 
> > > c) test to ensure cli can override config params
> > 
> > <nod>
> > 
> > > To test that a self generated config file works would be a next step (d),
> > > and I think we can validate it by also making sure it yields the same
> > > filesystem as if we just ran mkfs.xfs with no options, so same strategy
> > > as in a).
> > 
> > Ok, good.  I'd also argue for a test that tries every file in
> > /etc/xfs/mkfs/* to see if mkfs will format the filesystem described in
> > the config file, that way we can pick up all the distro-packaged files.
> 
> Works with me, so we have 3 tests in mind already.
> 
> > > With proper testing in place for regular configs stuff (the tests
> > > I have to write) and this I see your changes as desirable but I'm
> > > wondering if this should just wait until the next cycle so we at
> > > least have some effort on the testing started already?
> > 
> > Agreed.  I'm scurrying back under the rocks so that Eric can get
> > xfsprogs 4.17 out the door.
> 
> OK cool, I'll try to finish the discussed test soon.

Looking forward to it!

--D

> > (I'm actually going to go debug some hardware and see if I can get
> > fscounter scrub working.)
> 
> :)
> 
>   Luis
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