From c0baf9ac0b05d53dfe0436661dbdc5e43c01c5e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:27:46 -0300 Subject: docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event for user administrators and user space developers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025192746.66445-32-krisman@collabora.com Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- .../admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5a3c84e60095 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +==================================== +File system Monitoring with fanotify +==================================== + +File system Error Reporting +=========================== + +Fanotify supports the FAN_FS_ERROR event type for file system-wide error +reporting. It is meant to be used by file system health monitoring +daemons, which listen for these events and take actions (notify +sysadmin, start recovery) when a file system problem is detected. + +By design, a FAN_FS_ERROR notification exposes sufficient information +for a monitoring tool to know a problem in the file system has happened. +It doesn't necessarily provide a user space application with semantics +to verify an IO operation was successfully executed. That is out of +scope for this feature. Instead, it is only meant as a framework for +early file system problem detection and reporting recovery tools. + +When a file system operation fails, it is common for dozens of kernel +errors to cascade after the initial failure, hiding the original failure +log, which is usually the most useful debug data to troubleshoot the +problem. For this reason, FAN_FS_ERROR tries to report only the first +error that occurred for a file system since the last notification, and +it simply counts additional errors. This ensures that the most +important pieces of information are never lost. + +FAN_FS_ERROR requires the fanotify group to be setup with the +FAN_REPORT_FID flag. + +At the time of this writing, the only file system that emits FAN_FS_ERROR +notifications is Ext4. + +A FAN_FS_ERROR Notification has the following format:: + + [ Notification Metadata (Mandatory) ] + [ Generic Error Record (Mandatory) ] + [ FID record (Mandatory) ] + +The order of records is not guaranteed, and new records might be added +in the future. Therefore, applications must not rely on the order and +must be prepared to skip over unknown records. Please refer to +``samples/fanotify/fs-monitor.c`` for an example parser. + +Generic error record +-------------------- + +The generic error record provides enough information for a file system +agnostic tool to learn about a problem in the file system, without +providing any additional details about the problem. This record is +identified by ``struct fanotify_event_info_header.info_type`` being set +to FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_ERROR. + + struct fanotify_event_info_error { + struct fanotify_event_info_header hdr; + __s32 error; + __u32 error_count; + }; + +The `error` field identifies the type of error using errno values. +`error_count` tracks the number of errors that occurred and were +suppressed to preserve the original error information, since the last +notification. + +FID record +---------- + +The FID record can be used to uniquely identify the inode that triggered +the error through the combination of fsid and file handle. A file system +specific application can use that information to attempt a recovery +procedure. Errors that are not related to an inode are reported with an +empty file handle of type FILEID_INVALID. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index dc00afcabb95..1bedab498104 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking. edid efi-stub ext4 + filesystem-monitoring nfs/index gpio/index highuid -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9abeae5d4458326e16df7ea237104b58c27dfd77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:05:49 -0300 Subject: docs: Fix formatting of literal sections in fanotify docs Stephen Rothwell reported the following warning was introduced by commit c0baf9ac0b05 ("docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event"). Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst:60: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y26camhe.fsf@collabora.com Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst index 5a3c84e60095..ab8dba76283c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst @@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ notifications is Ext4. A FAN_FS_ERROR Notification has the following format:: - [ Notification Metadata (Mandatory) ] - [ Generic Error Record (Mandatory) ] - [ FID record (Mandatory) ] + :: + + [ Notification Metadata (Mandatory) ] + [ Generic Error Record (Mandatory) ] + [ FID record (Mandatory) ] The order of records is not guaranteed, and new records might be added in the future. Therefore, applications must not rely on the order and @@ -53,11 +55,13 @@ providing any additional details about the problem. This record is identified by ``struct fanotify_event_info_header.info_type`` being set to FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_ERROR. - struct fanotify_event_info_error { - struct fanotify_event_info_header hdr; - __s32 error; - __u32 error_count; - }; + :: + + struct fanotify_event_info_error { + struct fanotify_event_info_header hdr; + __s32 error; + __u32 error_count; + }; The `error` field identifies the type of error using errno values. `error_count` tracks the number of errors that occurred and were -- cgit v1.2.3