
我有一台從 USB 儲存空間上的根檔案系統運行 Ubuntu 14.04 的筆記型電腦。這不能很好地工作,因為從掛起喚醒後,ext4 會頻繁地在 USB 準備好之前嘗試寫入根檔案系統。
這是發生這種情況時我在核心日誌中看到的內容,請注意我如何在 上收到一堆 I/O 錯誤sda1
,然後一秒鐘後 USB 儲存驅動器最終被核心檢測到。
[ 2826.517419] wlan0: associated
[ 2826.517452] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 2827.575371] EXT4-fs warning (device sda1): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 1733735 (offset 0 size 0 starting block 12629950)
[ 2827.575380] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 12629694
[ 2827.575400] EXT4-fs warning (device sda1): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 3148603 (offset 0 size 8192 starting block 12844470)
[ 2827.575404] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 12844212
[ 2827.575411] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 12844213
[ 2827.575448] EXT4-fs warning (device sda1): ext4_end_bio:317: I/O error -5 writing to inode 3015015 (offset 0 size 90112 starting block 6588832)
[ 2827.575453] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588576
[ 2827.575461] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588577
[ 2827.575465] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588578
[ 2827.575469] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588579
[ 2827.575473] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588580
[ 2827.575477] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588581
[ 2827.575481] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 6588582
[ 2828.857284] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[ 2828.857293] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
起初,在核心日誌之外沒有任何可見的跡象表明問題已經觸發,但如果我讓 Ubuntu 繼續運行超過這一點,那麼檔案系統將出現錯誤並最終切換到唯讀模式。此時,我必須重新啟動進入復原模式並fsck.ext4
從 root shell 手動運行才能修復檔案系統。
我是否可以更改某些設置,以便可以延遲從掛起喚醒後對根設備的訪問,直到 USB 驅動器準備就緒?
答案1
此問題僅出現在 USB 裝置上,而不會出現在其他裝置上,原因有二:
- 與其他儲存媒體不同,USB 儲存依賴核心執行緒進行操作。
- 當從掛起狀態恢復時,核心同時喚醒所有執行緒。
結果是,在復原期間,USB 系統一方面嘗試偵測媒體和系統日誌,另一方面嘗試將掛起和復原的日誌訊息寫入磁碟之間會發生競爭。
如果 syslog 碰巧在偵測到 USB 裝置之前嘗試寫入,ext4 就會出現錯誤,由於某種原因,該錯誤沒有得到乾淨的處理,最終檔案系統將需要手動執行 fsck。
我找到的解決方案是在喚醒其他執行緒之前給內核執行緒 12 秒的啟動時間。為了使其正常工作,我必須對核心進行以下更改:
--- linux-3.13.0/kernel/power/suspend.c.orig 2014-01-20 03:40:07.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.13.0/kernel/power/suspend.c 2014-08-04 00:57:43.847038640 +0200
@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@
goto Resume_devices;
}
+unsigned int resume_delay = 0;
+
/**
* suspend_finish - Clean up before finishing the suspend sequence.
*
@@ -307,6 +309,15 @@
*/
static void suspend_finish(void)
{
+ if (resume_delay) {
+ /* Give kernel threads a head start, such that usb-storage
+ * can detect devices before syslog attempts to write log
+ * messages from the suspend code.
+ */
+ thaw_kernel_threads();
+ pr_debug("PM: Sleeping for %d milliseconds.\n", resume_delay);
+ msleep(resume_delay);
+ }
suspend_thaw_processes();
pm_notifier_call_chain(PM_POST_SUSPEND);
pm_restore_console();
--- linux-3.13.0/kernel/sysctl.c.orig 2014-08-04 08:11:26.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.13.0/kernel/sysctl.c 2014-08-03 23:27:23.796278219 +0200
@@ -277,8 +277,17 @@
static int max_extfrag_threshold = 1000;
#endif
+extern unsigned int resume_delay;
+
static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
{
+ .procname = "resume_delay",
+ .data = &resume_delay,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
+ {
.procname = "sched_child_runs_first",
.data = &sysctl_sched_child_runs_first,
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int),