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    SubjectRe: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues
    On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 05:20:34PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
    > 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?

    It took a couple of iterations of the find loop (4) here on a kernel
    where I'd dropped BLK_WBT=y from my .config... whereas I wasn't able
    to provoke it before. So running hackbench in parallel seems to
    increase the probability.

    I rebooted, set it going again, and on the first iteration it exploded
    with ext4 inode checksum failure. And again on the following reboot.
    So yes, it looks like you've found a way to more reliably reproduce
    it.

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