Hi Jay,
In fact，this is not "suppose" case yet, we have already met this problem several times in some test suits for corner case, or I cannot notice that this could happen.
On 2017/7/16 9:09, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> Hi Yunlong,
>
> On 07/14, Yunlong Song wrote:
>> Suppose that the valid blocks of each section are all over sbi->fggc_threshold,
> How about adding a kernel message first to detect your *supposed* sceanrio?
> If that happens, it'll be a sort of bug which we haven't assumed.
>
> Thanks,
>
>> and even has_not_enough_free_secs is true, f2fs_gc cannot do its job since the
>> no_fggc_candidate always returns true. As a result, the reserved segments can be
>> used up, and finally there is no free segment at all, and get_new_segment cannot
>> get a free segment, filesystem will trap into a wrong status.
>>
>> To fix this, we record the segno which has a rough minimum cost and return it to
>> __get_victim to continue f2fs_gc's job.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>> fs/f2fs/segment.h | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> index fa3d2e2..965e783 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
>> @@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type,
>> p->offset = 0;
>> else
>> p->offset = SIT_I(sbi)->last_victim[p->gc_mode];
>> +
>> + p->min_cost_r = UINT_MAX;
>> }
>>
>> static unsigned int get_max_cost(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>> @@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ static unsigned int get_max_cost(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> -static unsigned int check_bg_victims(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
>> +static unsigned int check_bg_victims(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct victim_sel_policy *p)
>> {
>> struct dirty_seglist_info *dirty_i = DIRTY_I(sbi);
>> unsigned int secno;
>> @@ -208,11 +210,12 @@ static unsigned int check_bg_victims(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
>> if (sec_usage_check(sbi, secno))
>> continue;
>>
>> - if (no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno))
>> + p->cur_segno_r = GET_SEG_FROM_SEC(sbi, secno);
>> + if (no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno, p))
>> continue;
>>
>> clear_bit(secno, dirty_i->victim_secmap);
>> - return GET_SEG_FROM_SEC(sbi, secno);
>> + return p->cur_segno_r;
>> }
>> return NULL_SEGNO;
>> }
>> @@ -332,7 +335,7 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>>
>> last_victim = sm->last_victim[p.gc_mode];
>> if (p.alloc_mode == LFS && gc_type == FG_GC) {
>> - p.min_segno = check_bg_victims(sbi);
>> + p.min_segno = check_bg_victims(sbi, &p);
>> if (p.min_segno != NULL_SEGNO)
>> goto got_it;
>> }
>> @@ -369,8 +372,9 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>> goto next;
>> if (gc_type == BG_GC && test_bit(secno, dirty_i->victim_secmap))
>> goto next;
>> + p.cur_segno_r = segno;
>> if (gc_type == FG_GC && p.alloc_mode == LFS &&
>> - no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno))
>> + no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno, &p))
>> goto next;
>>
>> cost = get_gc_cost(sbi, segno, &p);
>> @@ -403,6 +407,11 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>> trace_f2fs_get_victim(sbi->sb, type, gc_type, &p,
>> sbi->cur_victim_sec,
>> prefree_segments(sbi), free_segments(sbi));
>> + } else if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0)) {
>> + p.min_segno = p.min_segno_r;
>> + if (p.alloc_mode == LFS && gc_type == FG_GC)
>> + clear_bit(GET_SEC_FROM_SEG(sbi, p.min_segno), dirty_i->victim_secmap);
>> + goto got_it;
>> }
>> out:
>> mutex_unlock(&dirty_i->seglist_lock);
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.h b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
>> index 6b871b4..7d2d0f3 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.h
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
>> @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ struct victim_sel_policy {
>> unsigned int ofs_unit; /* bitmap search unit */
>> unsigned int min_cost; /* minimum cost */
>> unsigned int min_segno; /* segment # having min. cost */
>> + unsigned int min_cost_r; /* rough minimum cost */
>> + unsigned int min_segno_r; /* segment # having rough min. cost */
>> + unsigned int cur_segno_r; /* segment # rough process is handling */
>> };
>>
>> struct seg_entry {
>> @@ -743,11 +746,19 @@ static inline block_t sum_blk_addr(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int base, int type)
>> }
>>
>> static inline bool no_fggc_candidate(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>> - unsigned int secno)
>> + unsigned int secno, struct victim_sel_policy *p)
>> {
>> - if (get_valid_blocks(sbi, GET_SEG_FROM_SEC(sbi, secno), true) >=
>> - sbi->fggc_threshold)
>> + unsigned int cur_cost;
>> +
>> + cur_cost = get_valid_blocks(sbi, GET_SEG_FROM_SEC(sbi, secno), true);
>> + if (cur_cost >= sbi->fggc_threshold) {
>> + if (p->min_cost_r > cur_cost) {
>> + p->min_cost_r = cur_cost;
>> + p->min_segno_r = p->cur_segno_r;
>> + }
>> return true;
>> + }
>> +
>> return false;
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.5.2
> .
>
--
Thanks,
Yunlong Song
