linux-kernel - [PATCH] f2fs: fix wrong condition to trigger background checkpoint correctly

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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:19:14 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     jaegeuk@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: fix wrong condition to trigger background checkpoint correctly

In f2fs_balance_fs_bg(), it needs to check both NAT_ENTRIES and INO_ENTRIES
memory usage to decide whether we should skip background checkpoint, otherwise
we may always skip checking INO_ENTRIES memory usage, so that INO_ENTRIES may
potentially cause high memory footprint.

Fixes: 493720a48543 ("f2fs: fix to avoid REQ_TIME and CP_TIME collision")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/segment.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 53c7fa8f348c..f2473776c9e1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs_bg(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool from_bg)
 		goto do_sync;
 
 	/* checkpoint is the only way to shrink partial cached entries */
-	if (f2fs_available_free_memory(sbi, NAT_ENTRIES) ||
+	if (f2fs_available_free_memory(sbi, NAT_ENTRIES) &&
 		f2fs_available_free_memory(sbi, INO_ENTRIES))
 		return;
 
-- 
2.32.0