On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Yan, Zheng ukernel@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Yan, Zheng ukernel@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Deepa Dinamani deepa.kernel@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:36 PM, John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Yan, Zheng ukernel@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the bug you see is the result of the two timestamps currently being almost guaranteed to be different in the latest kernels. Changing r_stamp to use current_kernel_time() will make it the same value most of the time (as it was before Deepa's patch), but when the timer interrupt happens between the timestamps, the two are still different, it's just much harder to hit.
I think the proper solution should be to change __ceph_setattr() in a way that has req->r_stamp always synchronized with i_ctime. If we copy i_ctime to r_stamp, that will also take care of the future issues with the planned changes to current_time().
I already have a patch https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client/commit/24f54cd18e195a002ee3d2ab50dbc952f...
Looks good to me. In case anyone cares: Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
The part I don't understand is what else r_stamp (i.e. the time stamp in ceph_msg_data with type== CEPH_MSG_CLIENT_REQUEST) is used for, other than setting ctime in CEPH_MDS_OP_SETATTR.
Will this be used to update the stored i_ctime for other operations too? If so, we would need to synchronize it with the in-memory i_ctime for all operations that do this.
yes, mds uses it to update ctime of modified inodes. For example, when handling mkdir, mds set ctime of both parent inode and new inode to r_stamp.
I see, so we may have a variation of that problem there as well: From my reading of the code, the child inode is not in memory yet, so that seems fine, but I could not find where the parent in-memory inode i_ctime is updated in ceph, but it is most likely not the same as req->r_stamp (assuming it gets updated at all).
Would it make sense require all callers of ceph_mdsc_do_request() to update r_stamp at the same time as i_ctime to keep them in sync?
Arnd