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Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages

From Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages
Date 2016-07-26 12:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 21.07.2016 10:58, Stefan Bader wrote:
> > I was pointed at the thread which seems to address the same after
> > I wrote most of below text. Did not want to re-write this so please
> > bear with the odd layout.
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-June/msg00015.html
> > 
> > Zhengyuan tries to fix the problem by relocating the superblock on
> > disk. But I am not sure whether there is really any guarantee about
> > how __bread fills data into the buffer_head. What if there is the next
> > odd arch with 128K pages?
> > 
> > So below is an attempt to be more generic. Still I don't feel completely
> > happy with the way that a page moves (or is shared) between buffer_head
> > and biovec. What I tried to outline below is to let the register functions
> > allocate bio+biovec memory and use the in-memory sb_cache data to initialize
> > the biovec buffer.
> 
> Any opinions here? Also adding LKML as I don't seem to get through moderation on
> dm-devel.

The correct solution is to rip out the __bread() and just read the superblock by
issuing a bio, the same way all the other IO in bcache is done.

This is the way it's done in the bcache-dev branch - unfortunately, the patch
that does that in bcache-dev is big and invasive and probably not worth the
hassle to backport:

https://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/commit/?h=bcache-dev&id=303eb67bffad57b4d9e71523e7df04bf258e66d1

Probably best to just do something small and localized.

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Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> - 2016-07-26 12:00 +0200
  Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 12:30 +0200
    Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> - 2016-07-26 14:40 +0200
      Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 14:50 +0200
        Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> - 2016-07-27 17:20 +0200
          Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-07-28 08:00 +0200
            Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> - 2016-07-28 18:30 +0200
              Re: bcache super block corruption with non 4k pages Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> - 2016-08-04 12:30 +0200

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