Re: "beyond 2038" warnings from loopback mount is noisy

[Deepa Dinamani]

Actually this warning is coming from this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190818165817.32634-10-deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx/
([PATCH v8 09/20] ext4: Initialize timestamps limits).

This is the code generating the warning:

 diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
 index 9c7f4036021b..ae5d0c86aba2 100644
 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
 +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
 @@ -832,11 +832,15 @@ static inline void
ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec64 *time,

  #define EXT4_INODE_SET_XTIME(xtime, inode, raw_inode)
          \
  do {
          \
  -       (raw_inode)->xtime = cpu_to_le32((inode)->xtime.tv_sec);
           \
          if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, EXT4_I(inode), xtime ##
_extra))     {\
  +               (raw_inode)->xtime =
cpu_to_le32((inode)->xtime.tv_sec);        \
                  (raw_inode)->xtime ## _extra =
           \

ext4_encode_extra_time(&(inode)->xtime);        \
                  }
           \
  +       else    {\
  +               (raw_inode)->xtime = cpu_to_le32(clamp_t(int32_t,
(inode)->xtime.tv_sec, S32_MIN, S32_MAX));    \
  +               ext4_warning_inode(inode, "inode does not support
timestamps beyond 2038"); \
  +       } \
   } while (0)

This prints a warning for each inode that doesn't extend limits beyond
2038. It is rate limited by the ext4_warning_inode().
Looks like your filesystem has inodes that cannot be extended.
We could use a different rate limit or ignore this corner case. Do the
maintainers have a preference?

-Deepa

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:18 AM Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190818165817.32634-5-deepa.kernel@gmail.
> com/
>
> Running only a subset of the LTP testsuite on today's linux-next with the above
> commit is now generating ~800 warnings on this machine which seems a bit crazy.
>
> [ 2130.970782] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #40961: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2130.970808] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #40961: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2130.970838] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #40961: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2130.971440] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #40961: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847613] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847647] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847681] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847717] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847774] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847817] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847909] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.847970] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.848004] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2131.848415] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #32769: comm statx04: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753752] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753783] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753814] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753847] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753889] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.753929] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.754021] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5261: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.754064] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5262: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038
> [ 2134.754105] EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_do_update_inode:5263: inode
> #12: comm statx05: inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038