linux-stable.git/fs/f2fs/segment.c, branch v3.9

f2fs: clarify and enhance the f2fs_gc flow

2013-02-11T22:15:02+00:00

This patch makes clearer the ambiguous f2fs_gc flow as follows.

1. Remove intermediate checkpoint condition during f2fs_gc
 (i.e., should_do_checkpoint() and GC_BLOCKED)

2. Remove unnecessary return values of f2fs_gc because of #1.
 (i.e., GC_NODE, GC_OK, etc)

3. Simplify write_checkpoint() because of #2.

4. Clarify the main f2fs_gc flow.
 o monitor how many freed sections during one iteration of do_garbage_collect().
 o do GC more without checkpoints if we can't get enough free sections.
 o do checkpoint once we've got enough free sections through forground GCs.

5. Adopt thread-logging (Slack-Space-Recycle) scheme more aggressively on data
  log types. See. get_ssr_segement()

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: prevent checkpoint once any IO failure is detected

2013-02-11T22:15:00+00:00

This patch enhances the checkpoint routine to cope with IO errors.

Basically f2fs detects IO errors from end_io_write, and the errors are able to
be occurred during one of data, node, and meta page writes.

In the previous code, when an IO error is occurred during writes, f2fs sets a
flag, CP_ERROR_FLAG, in the raw ckeckpoint buffer which will be written to disk.
Afterwards, write_checkpoint() will check the flag and remount f2fs as a
read-only (ro) mode.

However, even once f2fs is remounted as a ro mode, dirty checkpoint pages are
freely able to be written to disk by flusher or kswapd in background.
In such a case, after cold reboot, f2fs would restore the checkpoint data having
CP_ERROR_FLAG, resulting in disabling write_checkpoint and remounting f2fs as
a ro mode again.

Therefore, let's prevent any checkpoint page (meta) writes once an IO error is
occurred, and remount f2fs as a ro mode right away at that moment.

Reported-by: Oliver Winker 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim 
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon

f2fs: revisit the f2fs_gc flow

2013-01-09T22:42:59+00:00

I'd like to revisit the f2fs_gc flow and rewrite as follows.

1. In practical, the nGC parameter of f2fs_gc is meaningless. So, let's
  remove it.
2. Background GC marks victim blocks as dirty one at a time.
3. Foreground GC should do cleaning job until acquiring enough free
  sections. Afterwards, it needs to do checkpoint.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: remove unneeded initialization of nr_dirty in dirty_seglist_info

2012-12-28T02:27:05+00:00

Since, the memory for the object of dirty_seglist_info is allocated
using kzalloc - which returns zeroed out memory. So, there is no need
to initialize the nr_dirty values with zeroes.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: fix equation of has_not_enough_free_secs()

2012-12-28T02:24:10+00:00

Practically, has_not_enough_free_secs() should calculate with the numbers of
current node and directory data blocks together.
Actually the equation was implemented in need_to_flush().

So, this patch removes need_flush() and moves the equation into
has_not_enough_free_secs().

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: return a default value for non-void function

2012-12-28T02:24:09+00:00

This patch resolves a build warning reported by kbuild test robot.

"
fs/f2fs/segment.c: In function '__get_segment_type':
fs/f2fs/segment.c:806:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void
function [-Wreturn-type]
"

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: add missing #include

2012-12-28T02:22:43+00:00

m68k allmodconfig:

fs/f2fs/data.c: In function ‘read_end_io’:
fs/f2fs/data.c:311: error: implicit declaration of function ‘prefetchw’

fs/f2fs/segment.c: In function ‘f2fs_end_io_write’:
fs/f2fs/segment.c:628: error: implicit declaration of function ‘prefetchw’

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: remove set_page_dirty for atomic f2fs_end_io_write

2012-12-26T01:39:51+00:00

We should guarantee not to do *scheduling while atomic*.
I found, in atomic f2fs_end_io_write(), there is a set_page_dirty() call
to deal with IO errors.

But, set_page_dirty() calls:
 -> f2fs_set_data_page_dirty()
   -> set_dirty_dir_page()
      -> cond_resched() which results in scheduling.

In order to avoid this, I'd like to remove simply set_page_dirty(),
since the page is already marked as ERROR and f2fs will be operated
as the read-only mode as well.
So, there is no recovery issue with this.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

f2fs: cleanup the f2fs_bio_alloc routine

2012-12-11T04:43:45+00:00

Do cleanup more for better code readability.

- Change the parameter set of f2fs_bio_alloc()
  This function should allocate a bio only since it is not something like
  f2fs_bio_init(). Instead, the caller should initialize the allocated bio.

- Introduce SECTOR_FROM_BLOCK
  This macro translates a block address to its sector address.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim 
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon

f2fs: rewrite f2fs_bio_alloc to make it simpler

2012-12-11T04:43:44+00:00

Since, GFP_NOFS(__GFP_WAIT) is used for allocation requests of bio in f2fs.
So, there is no chance of returning NULL from the BIO allocation.

Making the bio allocation routine for f2fs simpler.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat