On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:16 AM Kent Overstreet
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 10:33:07AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 01:59, Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi - what would it take to get syzbot going for bcachefs?
> >
> > Hi Kent,
> >
> > There are 2 parts:
> >
> > The easy one: we need to enable it in syzbot configs. Should we
> > configure it as follows?
> >
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_FS=y
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_QUOTA=y
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_ERASURE_CODING=y
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_POSIX_ACL=y
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_DEBUG=y
> > # CONFIG_BCACHEFS_TESTS is not set
> > # CONFIG_BCACHEFS_LOCK_TIME_STATS is not set
> > # CONFIG_BCACHEFS_NO_LATENCY_ACCT is not set
> > CONFIG_BCACHEFS_SIX_OPTIMISTIC_SPIN=y
> >
> > In particular, I am interested in CONFIG_BCACHEFS_DEBUG. Does it
> > really add more debug checks rather than lots of console printing w/o
> > checks? Some "DEBUG" kernel configs are misleading here. Checks will
> > be useful on syzbot, lots of printing not so much.

For the record: I've just sent
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/pull/4647 with syzbot config
updates.

>
> CONFIG_BCACHEFS_DEBUG adds piles of assertions and no extra console
> printing :)
>
> > Second part: syzbot will need to exercise the fs in some useful way.
> > Is it just a "normal" fs with files, or something special?
>
> It's a normal - but multi device - filesystem, similar featureset to
> btrfs.
>
> > Is it mounted from an image, or an image-less fs? If it needs images,
> > how can they be created?
>
> apt install bcachefs-tools
> mkfs.bcachefs <dev>
> mount <dev> /mnt
>
> ...
>
> > "find tools/testing/ Documentation/ -name "*bcachefs*"" does not give
> > me anything useful.
>
> https://bcachefs.org/ has some docs, and the tools have a man page
>
> Anything else you'd be interested in? Thomas was interested in working
> on on-disk-image error injection, is that something that would be
> useful?
>
> Ariel's also probably going to be working on adding full image creation
> to mkfs, i.e. pass it a directory - is that something that would be
> useful as well?
>

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