Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] btrfs: Add zstd support

[Nick Terrell]

On 7/10/17, 5:36 AM, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2017-07-07 23:07, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:40:18AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 11:17:49PM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote:
>>>> On 7/6/17, 9:32 AM, "Adam Borowski" <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Got a reproducible crash on amd64:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the bug report Adam! I'm looking into the failure, and haven't
>>>> been able to reproduce it yet. I've built my kernel from your tree, and
>>>> I ran your script with the kernel.tar tarball 100 times, but haven't gotten
>>>> a failure yet.
>>>
>>>> I have a few questions to guide my debugging.
>>>>
>>>> - How many cores are you running with? Iâve run the script with 1, 2, and 4 cores.
>>>> - Which version of gcc are you using to compile the kernel? Iâm using gcc-6.2.0-5ubuntu12.
>>>> - Are the failures always in exactly the same place, and does it fail 100%
>>>>    of the time or just regularly?
>>>
>>> 6 cores -- all on bare metal.  gcc-7.1.0-9.
>>> Lemme try with gcc-6, a different config or in a VM.
>> 
>> I've tried the following:
>> * gcc-6, defconfig (+btrfs obviously)
>> * gcc-7, defconfig
>> * gcc-6, my regular config
>> * gcc-7, my regular config
>> * gcc-7, debug + UBSAN + etc
>> * gcc-7, defconfig, qemu-kvm with only 1 core
>>
>> Every build with gcc-7 reproduces the crash, every with gcc-6 does not.
>>
> Got a GCC7 tool-chain built, and I can confirm this here too, tested 
> with various numbers of cores ranging from 1-32 in a QEMU+KVM VM, with 
> various combinations of debug options and other config switches.

I was running in an Ubuntu 16.10 VM on a MacBook Pro. I built with gcc-6.2
with KASAN, and couldn't trigger it, as expected. I built with gcc-7.1.0
built from source, and couldn't reproduce it. However, when I set up
qemu-kvm on another device, and compiled with gcc-7.1.0 built from source,
I was able to reproduce the bug. Now that I can reproduce it, I'll look
into a fix. Thanks Adam and Austin for finding, reproducing, and verifying
the bug.