On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM Benjamin Marzinski [off-list ref] wrote:

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I am not able to get reliable results from shell/lvconvert-repair-raid.sh
either. For 6.6.0 kernel, the test fails. On 6.8-rc1 kernel, the test fails
sometimes.

Could you please share more information about your test setup?
Specifically:
1. Which tree/branch/tag are you testing?
2. What's the .config used in the tests?
3. How do you run the test suite? One test at a time, or all of them
together?
4. How do you handle "test passes sometimes" cases?

So, I have been able to recreate the case where lvconvert-repair-raid.sh
keeps failing. It happens when I tried running the reproducer on a virtual
machine made using a cloud image, instead of one that I manually
installed. I'm not sure why there is a difference. But I can show you
how I can reliably recreate the errors I'm seeing.


Create a new Fedora 39 virtual machine with the following commands (I'm
not sure if it is possible to reproduce this on a machine using less
memory and cpus, but I can try that if you need me to. You probably also
want to pick a faster Fedora Mirror for the image location):
# virt-install --name repair-test --memory 8192 --vcpus 8 --disk size=40 --graphics none --extra-args "console=ttyS0" --osinfo detect=on,name=fedora-unknown --location https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/39/Server/x86_64/os/

virt-install doesn't work well in the my daily dev server. I will try on a
different machine.

Install to the whole virtual drive, using the default LVM partitioning.
Then ssh into the VM and run the following commands to setup the
lvm2-testsuite and 6.6.0 kernel:

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Rerun the lvm2-testsuite with the same commands as before:

# mount -o remount,dev /tmp

This mount trick helped me run tests without a full image (use
CONFIG_9P_FS to reuse host file systems instead). Thanks!

# cd ~/lvm2
# make check T=lvconvert-repair-raid.sh

This fails about 20% of the time, usually at either line 146 or 164. You
can check by running the following command when the test fails.

However, I am seeing lvconvert-repair-raid.sh passes all the time
with both 6.6 kernel and 6.8+v5 patchset. My host system is
CentOS 8.

I guess we will have to run more tests.

DM folks, please also review the set. We won't be able to ship the
dm changes without your thorough reviews.

Thanks,
Song