linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: Fix indefinite loop in f2fs

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:45 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: Fix indefinite loop in f2fs_gc()

Hi Sahitya,

On 2019-7-29 13:20, Sahitya Tummala wrote:
> Policy - foreground GC, LFS mode and greedy GC mode.
> 
> Under this policy, f2fs_gc() loops forever to GC as it doesn't have
> enough free segements to proceed and thus it keeps calling gc_more
> for the same victim segment.  This can happen if the selected victim
> segment could not be GC'd due to failed blkaddr validity check i.e.
> is_alive() returns false for the blocks set in current validity map.
> 
> Fix this by not resetting the sbi->cur_victim_sec to NULL_SEGNO, when
> the segment selected could not be GC'd. This helps to select another
> segment for GC and thus helps to proceed forward with GC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/gc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> index 8974672..7bbcc4a 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool sync,
>  		round++;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (gc_type == FG_GC)
> +	if (gc_type == FG_GC && seg_freed)
>  		sbi->cur_victim_sec = NULL_SEGNO;

In some cases, we may remain last victim in sbi->cur_victim_sec, and jump out of
GC cycle, then SSR can skip the last victim due to sec_usage_check()...

Thanks,

>  
>  	if (sync)
>