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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] xfs: fix split buffer vector log recovery support
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:21:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A65550.50508@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369636707-15150-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On 05/27/13 01:38, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> A long time ago in a galaxy far away....
>
> .. the was a commit made to fix some ilinux specific "fragmented
> buffer" log recovery problem:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=archive/xfs-import.git;a=commitdiff;h=b29c0bece51da72fb3ff3b61391a391ea54e1603
>
> That problem occurred when a contiguous dirty region of a buffer was
> split across across two pages of an unmapped buffer. It's been a
> long time since that has been done in XFS, and the changes to log
> the entire inode buffers for CRC enabled filesystems has
> re-introduced that corner case.
>
> And, of course, it turns out that the above commit didn't actually
> fix anything - it just ensured that log recovery is guaranteed to
> fail when this situation occurs. And now for the gory details.
>
...

Thanks for the great walk through of the problem.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-27  6:38 [PATH 0/9] xfs: fixes for 3.10-rc4 Dave Chinner
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: don't emit v5 superblock warnings on write Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 16:39   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 17:49     ` Ben Myers
2013-06-11  6:05       ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-11 21:29         ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: fix incorrect remote symlink block count Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 16:39   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30  0:46     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 17:49     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: increase number of ACL entries for V5 superblocks Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 16:40   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: rework dquot CRCs Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 18:58   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30  1:00     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 12:02       ` Brian Foster
2013-06-03  4:12         ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: fix split buffer vector log recovery support Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 19:21   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-05-30 17:49     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: disable swap extents ioctl on CRC enabled filesystems Dave Chinner
2013-05-28 21:49   ` Ben Myers
2013-05-30  1:07     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 21:06   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 17:56     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: kill suid/sgid through the truncate path Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 14:17   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 15:52     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-30 16:02       ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 17:07         ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: add fsgeom flag for v5 superblock support Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 15:10   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-29 21:43     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-29 21:47       ` Ben Myers
2013-05-30  1:28       ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-30  1:11     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 14:17   ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 17:57     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-27  6:38 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: inode unlinked list needs to recalculate the inode CRC Dave Chinner
2013-05-28 11:51   ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-28 20:36   ` [PATCH 9a,9b v2, replacements] xfs: unlinked list crcs Dave Chinner
2013-05-28 20:36     ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix log recovery transaction item reordering Dave Chinner
2013-05-28 20:36     ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: inode unlinked list needs to recalculate the inode CRC Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 14:17       ` Brian Foster
2013-05-30 20:27         ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-28  8:37 ` [PATCH 10/9] xfs: fix dir3 freespace block corruption Dave Chinner
2013-05-30 19:15   ` Ben Myers
2013-05-31 21:54     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-28 17:56 ` [PATH 0/9] xfs: fixes for 3.10-rc4 Ben Myers
2013-05-28 23:54   ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-29 19:01     ` Ben Myers
2013-05-29 19:27       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-05-29 19:45         ` Ben Myers
2013-05-28 21:27 ` [PATCH 11/9] xfs: fix remote attribute invalidation for a leaf Dave Chinner

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