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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:58:59 -0700
From:      "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316938 - head/sbin/savecore
Message-ID:  <499FA6FF-E691-4941-B96C-3806072D14AA@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2gPHWRGiE9UA5AevZz=cTv_qksAWX0H-xRjDEHp0huCVg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201704141941.v3EJfmCW003347@repo.freebsd.org> <CAOtMX2gPHWRGiE9UA5AevZz=cTv_qksAWX0H-xRjDEHp0huCVg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Apr 14, 2017, at 12:49, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: ngie
>> Date: Fri Apr 14 19:41:48 2017
>> New Revision: 316938
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316938
>>=20
>> Log:
>>  savecore: fix space calculation with respect to `minfree` in =
check_space(..)
>>=20
>>  - Use strtoll(3) instead of atoi(3), because atoi(3) limits the
>>    representable data to INT_MAX. Check the values received from
>>    strtoll(3), trimming trailing whitespace off the end to maintain
>>    POLA.
>>  - Use `KiB` instead of `kB` when describing free space, total space,
>>    etc. I am now fully aware of `KiB` being the IEC standard for 1024
>>    bytes and `kB` being the IEC standard for 1000 bytes.
>>  - Store available number of KiB in `available` so it can be more
>>    easily queried and compared to ensure that there are enough KiB to
>>    store the dump image on disk.
>>  - Print out the reserved space on disk, per `minfree`, so end-users
>>    can troubleshoot why check_space(..) is reporting that there isn't
>>    enough free space.
>>=20
>>  MFC after:    7 weeks
>>  Reviewed by:  Anton Rang <rang@acm.com> (earlier diff), cem (earlier =
diff)
>>  Tested with:  positive/negative cases (see review); make tinderbox
>>  Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
>>  Differential Revision:        D10379
>=20
> The free space calculation is still uselessly conservative, because it
> doesn't account for the fact that core dumps will always be either
> spare or compressed.  The result is that savecore will frequently
> refuse to save corefiles even when there's plenty of space.  I
> proposed removing the space check altogether in
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2587.  However, I agreed to wait until
> after the compressed core dump feature was merged, because then mostly
> accurate space checks will be possible.  AFAIK the compressed core
> dump feature still hasn't been finished.

That CR concerns me.

The whole being able to check how much space we have on disk before =
dumping is a wonderful tool because it prevents users from having =
/var/crash be full of truncated full dumps, text dumps, and/or mini =
dumps.

The real problem that you=E2=80=99re bringing up is that the size being =
passed in to check_size(..) is wrong. It needs to be the on-disk size =
(which can be a pessimization from gzip/zlib), not the in-memory size of =
all of the dumped pages.

Thanks for the note =E2=80=94 this helps me with another related issue =
at $work that will likely prevent me from being able to write proper =
tests to test out panic dumps on OneFS :).

Cheers!
-Ngie

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