xfs: introduce an always_cow mode
Add a mode where XFS never overwrites existing blocks in place. This
is to aid debugging our COW code, and also put infatructure in place
for things like possible future support for zoned block devices, which
can't support overwrites.
This mode is enabled globally by doing a:
echo 1 > /sys/fs/xfs/debug/always_cow
Note that the parameter is global to allow running all tests in xfstests
easily in this mode, which would not easily be possible with a per-fs
sysfs file.
In always_cow mode persistent preallocations are disabled, and fallocate
will fail when called with a 0 mode (with our without
FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE), and not create unwritten extent for zeroed space
when called with FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE or FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE.
There are a few interesting xfstests failures when run in always_cow
mode:
- generic/392 fails because the bytes used in the file used to test
hole punch recovery are less after the log replay. This is
because the blocks written and then punched out are only freed
with a delay due to the logging mechanism.
- xfs/170 will fail as the already fragile file streams mechanism
doesn't seem to interact well with the COW allocator
- xfs/180 xfs/182 xfs/192 xfs/198 xfs/204 and xfs/208 will claim
the file system is badly fragmented, but there is not much we
can do to avoid that when always writing out of place
- xfs/205 fails because overwriting a file in always_cow mode
will require new space allocation and the assumption in the
test thus don't work anymore.
- xfs/326 fails to modify the file at all in always_cow mode after
injecting the refcount error, leading to an unexpected md5sum
after the remount, but that again is expected
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
index cd6a994..cabda13 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c
@@ -183,10 +183,34 @@ mount_delay_show(
}
XFS_SYSFS_ATTR_RW(mount_delay);
+static ssize_t
+always_cow_store(
+ struct kobject *kobject,
+ const char *buf,
+ size_t count)
+{
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ ret = kstrtobool(buf, &xfs_globals.always_cow);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+always_cow_show(
+ struct kobject *kobject,
+ char *buf)
+{
+ return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", xfs_globals.always_cow);
+}
+XFS_SYSFS_ATTR_RW(always_cow);
+
static struct attribute *xfs_dbg_attrs[] = {
ATTR_LIST(bug_on_assert),
ATTR_LIST(log_recovery_delay),
ATTR_LIST(mount_delay),
+ ATTR_LIST(always_cow),
NULL,
};
