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Because log recovery depends on strictly ordered start records as well as strictly ordered commit records. This is a zero day bug in the way XFS writes pipelined transactions to the journal which is exposed by fixing the zero day bug that prevents the CIL from pipelining checkpoints. This re-introduces explicit concurrent commits back into the on-disk journal and hence out of order start records. The XFS journal commit code has never ordered start records and we have relied on strict commit record ordering for correct recovery ordering of concurrently written transactions. Unfortunately, root cause analysis uncovered the fact that log recovery uses the LSN of the start record for transaction commit processing. Hence, whilst the commits are processed in strict order by recovery, the LSNs associated with the commits can be out of order and so recovery may stamp incorrect LSNs into objects and/or misorder intents in the AIL for later processing. This can result in log recovery failures and/or on disk corruption, sometimes silent. Because this is a long standing log recovery issue, we can't just fix log recovery and call it good. This still leaves older kernels susceptible to recovery failures and corruption when replaying a log from a kernel that pipelines checkpoints. There is also the issue that in-memory ordering for AIL pushing and data integrity operations are based on checkpoint start LSNs, and if the start LSN is incorrect in the journal, it is also incorrect in memory. Hence there's really only one choice for fixing this zero-day bug: we need to strictly order checkpoint start records in ascending sequence order in the log, the same way we already strictly order commit records. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.