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    SubjectRe: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues
    On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:52:53PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
    > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 11:53:59AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
    > > ... and are you using defconfig or something else?
    >
    > Not sure I replied to this. I'm not using the defconfig, I've my own
    > .config
    >
    > As I mentioned, Will has built a 5.10 kernel using Arnd's gcc 4.9.4
    > and hasn't been able to reproduce it. He's sent me his kernel, which
    > I've booted here, and haven't yet been able to provoke it.
    >
    > Meanwhile, my 5.9 kernel continues to exhibit this problem, so I've
    > sent Will my .config (which I'll include here.) There are differences
    > in some of the block layer configuration. There's differences in the
    > errata configuration, but we don't think that's a cause (they're not
    > relevant for Cortex A72).
    >
    > Our plan is:
    > - Will is switching to 5.9, and using my config as a base for his
    > platform.
    > - Will is going to send me his modified version of my config.
    > - We are both going to build using the same kernel sources and same
    > config.
    > - We are going to test our own kernels, and also swap kernel images
    > and test each others.
    >
    > Watch this space for more news...

    I've managed to reproduce the corruption on my AMD Seattle board (8x A57).
    I haven't had a chance to dig deeper yet, but here's the recipe which works
    for me:

    1. I'm using GCC 4.9.4 simply to try to get as close as I can to rmk's
    setup. I don't know if this is necessary or not, but the toolchain is
    here:

    https://kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/arm64/4.9.4/arm64-gcc-4.9.4-nolibc-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz

    and I needed to pull down an old libmpfr to get cc1 to work:

    http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/m/mpfr4/libmpfr4_3.1.2-1_arm64.deb

    2. I build a 5.9 kernel with the config here:

    https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/will/bugs/rmk/config-5.9.0

    and the resulting Image is here:

    https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/will/bugs/rmk/Image-5.9.0

    3. Using that kernel, I boot into a 64-bit Debian 10 filesystem and open a
    couple of terminals over SSH.

    4. In one terminal, I run:

    $ while (true); do find /var /usr /bin /sbin -type f -print0 | xargs -0
    md5sum > /dev/null; echo 2 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; done

    (note that sudo will prompt you for a password on the first iteration)

    5. In the other terminal, I run:

    $ while (true); do ./hackbench ; sleep 1; done

    where hackbench is built from:

    https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c

    and compiled according to comment in the source code.

    With that, I see the following after ten seconds or so:

    EXT4-fs error (device sda2): ext4_lookup:1707: inode #674497: comm md5sum: iget: checksum invalid

    Russell, Mark -- does this recipe explode reliably for you too?

    Will

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