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<title>Merge tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs</title>
<updated>2021-05-05T01:03:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-05T01:03:38+00:00</published>
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Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we added a new mount option, "checkpoint_merge", which
  introduces a kernel thread dealing with the f2fs checkpoints. Once we
  start to manage the IO priority along with blk-cgroup, the checkpoint
  operation can be processed in a lower priority under the process
  context. Since the checkpoint holds all the filesystem operations, we
  give a higher priority to the checkpoint thread all the time.

  Enhancements:
   - introduce gc_merge mount option to introduce a checkpoint thread
   - improve to run discard thread efficiently
   - allow modular compression algorithms
   - expose # of overprivision segments to sysfs
   - expose runtime compression stat to sysfs

  Bug fixes:
   - fix OOB memory access by the node id lookup
   - avoid touching checkpointed data in the checkpoint-disabled mode
   - fix the resizing flow to avoid kernel panic and race conditions
   - fix block allocation issues on pinned files
   - address some swapfile issues
   - fix hugtask problem and kernel panic during atomic write operations
   - don't start checkpoint thread in RO

  And, we've cleaned up some kernel coding style and build warnings. In
  addition, we fixed some minor race conditions and error handling
  routines"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (48 commits)
  f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal
  f2fs: compress: remove unneed check condition
  f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes
  f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()
  f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration
  f2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference
  f2fs: avoid duplicated codes for cleanup
  f2fs: document: add description about compressed space handling
  f2fs: clean up build warnings
  f2fs: fix the periodic wakeups of discard thread
  f2fs: fix to avoid accessing invalid fio in f2fs_allocate_data_block()
  f2fs: fix to avoid GC/mmap race with f2fs_truncate()
  f2fs: set checkpoint_merge by default
  f2fs: Fix a hungtask problem in atomic write
  f2fs: fix to restrict mount condition on readonly block device
  f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option
  f2fs: fix to cover __allocate_new_section() with curseg_lock
  f2fs: fix wrong alloc_type in f2fs_do_replace_block
  f2fs: delete empty compress.h
  f2fs: fix a typo in inode.c
  ...
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Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we added a new mount option, "checkpoint_merge", which
  introduces a kernel thread dealing with the f2fs checkpoints. Once we
  start to manage the IO priority along with blk-cgroup, the checkpoint
  operation can be processed in a lower priority under the process
  context. Since the checkpoint holds all the filesystem operations, we
  give a higher priority to the checkpoint thread all the time.

  Enhancements:
   - introduce gc_merge mount option to introduce a checkpoint thread
   - improve to run discard thread efficiently
   - allow modular compression algorithms
   - expose # of overprivision segments to sysfs
   - expose runtime compression stat to sysfs

  Bug fixes:
   - fix OOB memory access by the node id lookup
   - avoid touching checkpointed data in the checkpoint-disabled mode
   - fix the resizing flow to avoid kernel panic and race conditions
   - fix block allocation issues on pinned files
   - address some swapfile issues
   - fix hugtask problem and kernel panic during atomic write operations
   - don't start checkpoint thread in RO

  And, we've cleaned up some kernel coding style and build warnings. In
  addition, we fixed some minor race conditions and error handling
  routines"

* tag 'f2fs-for-5.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (48 commits)
  f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal
  f2fs: compress: remove unneed check condition
  f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes
  f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()
  f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration
  f2fs: fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference
  f2fs: avoid duplicated codes for cleanup
  f2fs: document: add description about compressed space handling
  f2fs: clean up build warnings
  f2fs: fix the periodic wakeups of discard thread
  f2fs: fix to avoid accessing invalid fio in f2fs_allocate_data_block()
  f2fs: fix to avoid GC/mmap race with f2fs_truncate()
  f2fs: set checkpoint_merge by default
  f2fs: Fix a hungtask problem in atomic write
  f2fs: fix to restrict mount condition on readonly block device
  f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option
  f2fs: fix to cover __allocate_new_section() with curseg_lock
  f2fs: fix wrong alloc_type in f2fs_do_replace_block
  f2fs: delete empty compress.h
  f2fs: fix a typo in inode.c
  ...
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: fix to avoid touching checkpointed data in get_victim()</title>
<updated>2021-03-26T17:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-24T03:18:28+00:00</published>
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In CP disabling mode, there are two issues when using LFS or SSR | AT_SSR
mode to select victim:

1. LFS is set to find source section during GC, the victim should have
no checkpointed data, since after GC, section could not be set free for
reuse.

Previously, we only check valid chpt blocks in current segment rather
than section, fix it.

2. SSR | AT_SSR are set to find target segment for writes which can be
fully filled by checkpointed and newly written blocks, we should never
select such segment, otherwise it can cause panic or data corruption
during allocation, potential case is described as below:

 a) target segment has 'n' (n &lt; 512) ckpt valid blocks
 b) GC migrates 'n' valid blocks to other segment (segment is still
    in dirty list)
 c) GC migrates '512 - n' blocks to target segment (segment has 'n'
    cp_vblocks and '512 - n' vblocks)
 d) If GC selects target segment via {AT,}SSR allocator, however there
    is no free space in targe segment.

Fixes: 4354994f097d ("f2fs: checkpoint disabling")
Fixes: 093749e296e2 ("f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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In CP disabling mode, there are two issues when using LFS or SSR | AT_SSR
mode to select victim:

1. LFS is set to find source section during GC, the victim should have
no checkpointed data, since after GC, section could not be set free for
reuse.

Previously, we only check valid chpt blocks in current segment rather
than section, fix it.

2. SSR | AT_SSR are set to find target segment for writes which can be
fully filled by checkpointed and newly written blocks, we should never
select such segment, otherwise it can cause panic or data corruption
during allocation, potential case is described as below:

 a) target segment has 'n' (n &lt; 512) ckpt valid blocks
 b) GC migrates 'n' valid blocks to other segment (segment is still
    in dirty list)
 c) GC migrates '512 - n' blocks to target segment (segment has 'n'
    cp_vblocks and '512 - n' vblocks)
 d) If GC selects target segment via {AT,}SSR allocator, however there
    is no free space in targe segment.

Fixes: 4354994f097d ("f2fs: checkpoint disabling")
Fixes: 093749e296e2 ("f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: remove unused FORCE_FG_GC macro</title>
<updated>2021-03-12T21:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-20T09:38:42+00:00</published>
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FORCE_FG_GC was introduced by commit 6aefd93b0137 ("f2fs: introduce
background_gc=sync mount option"), but never be used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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FORCE_FG_GC was introduced by commit 6aefd93b0137 ("f2fs: introduce
background_gc=sync mount option"), but never be used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: rename BIO_MAX_PAGES to BIO_MAX_VECS</title>
<updated>2021-03-11T14:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-11T11:01:37+00:00</published>
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Ever since the addition of multipage bio_vecs BIO_MAX_PAGES has been
horribly confusingly misnamed.  Rename it to BIO_MAX_VECS to stop
confusing users of the bio API.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210311110137.1132391-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Ever since the addition of multipage bio_vecs BIO_MAX_PAGES has been
horribly confusingly misnamed.  Rename it to BIO_MAX_VECS to stop
confusing users of the bio API.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210311110137.1132391-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: handle unallocated section and zone on pinned/atgc</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T23:19:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaegeuk Kim</name>
<email>jaegeuk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-23T19:44:25+00:00</published>
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If we have large section/zone, unallocated segment makes them corrupted.

E.g.,

  - Pinned file:       -1 119304647 119304647
  - ATGC   data:       -1 119304647 119304647

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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If we have large section/zone, unallocated segment makes them corrupted.

E.g.,

  - Pinned file:       -1 119304647 119304647
  - ATGC   data:       -1 119304647 119304647

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: fix wrong total_sections check and fsmeta check</title>
<updated>2020-09-29T08:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Xiaojun</name>
<email>wangxiaojun11@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-17T11:11:58+00:00</published>
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Meta area is not included in section_count computation.
So the minimum number of total_sections is 1 meanwhile it cannot be
greater than segment_count_main.

The minimum number of meta segments is 8 (SB + 2 (CP + SIT + NAT) + SSA).

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaojun &lt;wangxiaojun11@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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Meta area is not included in section_count computation.
So the minimum number of total_sections is 1 meanwhile it cannot be
greater than segment_count_main.

The minimum number of meta segments is 8 (SB + 2 (CP + SIT + NAT) + SSA).

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaojun &lt;wangxiaojun11@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: change return value of reserved_segments to unsigned int</title>
<updated>2020-09-29T08:48:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaojun Wang</name>
<email>wangxiaojun11@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T08:00:46+00:00</published>
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The type of SM_I(sbi)-&gt;reserved_segments is unsigned int,
so change the return value to unsigned int.
The type cast can be removed in reserved_sections as a result.

Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Wang &lt;wangxiaojun11@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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The type of SM_I(sbi)-&gt;reserved_segments is unsigned int,
so change the return value to unsigned int.
The type cast can be removed in reserved_sections as a result.

Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Wang &lt;wangxiaojun11@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection</title>
<updated>2020-09-11T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T13:14:49+00:00</published>
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There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates based the
ratio, so that we can shrink candidates to those oldest segments;
- select target segment with fewest valid blocks in order to
migrate blocks with minimum cost;

2. select a target victim:
- select candidates beased age threshold;
- set candidate_radius threshold, search candidates whose age is
around source victims, searching radius should less than the
radius threshold.
- select target segment with most valid blocks in order to avoid
migrating current target segment.

3. merge valid blocks from source victim into target victim with
SSR alloctor.

Test steps:
- create 160 dirty segments:
 * half of them have 128 valid blocks per segment
 * left of them have 384 valid blocks per segment
- run background GC

Benefit: GC count and block movement count both decrease obviously:

- Before:
  - Valid: 86
  - Dirty: 1
  - Prefree: 11
  - Free: 6001 (6001)

GC calls: 162 (BG: 220)
  - data segments : 160 (160)
  - node segments : 2 (2)
Try to move 41454 blocks (BG: 41454)
  - data blocks : 40960 (40960)
  - node blocks : 494 (494)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 0 blocks in 0 segments
LFS: 41364 blocks in 81 segments

- After:

  - Valid: 87
  - Dirty: 0
  - Prefree: 4
  - Free: 6008 (6008)

GC calls: 75 (BG: 76)
  - data segments : 74 (74)
  - node segments : 1 (1)
Try to move 12813 blocks (BG: 12813)
  - data blocks : 12544 (12544)
  - node blocks : 269 (269)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 12032 blocks in 77 segments
LFS: 855 blocks in 2 segments

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug along with pinfile in-mem segment &amp; clean up]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates based the
ratio, so that we can shrink candidates to those oldest segments;
- select target segment with fewest valid blocks in order to
migrate blocks with minimum cost;

2. select a target victim:
- select candidates beased age threshold;
- set candidate_radius threshold, search candidates whose age is
around source victims, searching radius should less than the
radius threshold.
- select target segment with most valid blocks in order to avoid
migrating current target segment.

3. merge valid blocks from source victim into target victim with
SSR alloctor.

Test steps:
- create 160 dirty segments:
 * half of them have 128 valid blocks per segment
 * left of them have 384 valid blocks per segment
- run background GC

Benefit: GC count and block movement count both decrease obviously:

- Before:
  - Valid: 86
  - Dirty: 1
  - Prefree: 11
  - Free: 6001 (6001)

GC calls: 162 (BG: 220)
  - data segments : 160 (160)
  - node segments : 2 (2)
Try to move 41454 blocks (BG: 41454)
  - data blocks : 40960 (40960)
  - node blocks : 494 (494)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 0 blocks in 0 segments
LFS: 41364 blocks in 81 segments

- After:

  - Valid: 87
  - Dirty: 0
  - Prefree: 4
  - Free: 6008 (6008)

GC calls: 75 (BG: 76)
  - data segments : 74 (74)
  - node segments : 1 (1)
Try to move 12813 blocks (BG: 12813)
  - data blocks : 12544 (12544)
  - node blocks : 269 (269)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 12032 blocks in 77 segments
LFS: 855 blocks in 2 segments

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug along with pinfile in-mem segment &amp; clean up]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: introduce inmem curseg</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T21:03:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T13:14:45+00:00</published>
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Previous implementation of aligned pinfile allocation will:
- allocate new segment on cold data log no matter whether last used
segment is partially used or not, it makes IOs more random;
- force concurrent cold data/GCed IO going into warm data area, it
can make a bad effect on hot/cold data separation;

In this patch, we introduce a new type of log named 'inmem curseg',
the differents from normal curseg is:
- it reuses existed segment type (CURSEG_XXX_NODE/DATA);
- it only exists in memory, its segno, blkofs, summary will not b
 persisted into checkpoint area;

With this new feature, we can enhance scalability of log, special
allocators can be created for purposes:
- pure lfs allocator for aligned pinfile allocation or file
defragmentation
- pure ssr allocator for later feature

So that, let's update aligned pinfile allocation to use this new
inmem curseg fwk.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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Previous implementation of aligned pinfile allocation will:
- allocate new segment on cold data log no matter whether last used
segment is partially used or not, it makes IOs more random;
- force concurrent cold data/GCed IO going into warm data area, it
can make a bad effect on hot/cold data separation;

In this patch, we introduce a new type of log named 'inmem curseg',
the differents from normal curseg is:
- it reuses existed segment type (CURSEG_XXX_NODE/DATA);
- it only exists in memory, its segno, blkofs, summary will not b
 persisted into checkpoint area;

With this new feature, we can enhance scalability of log, special
allocators can be created for purposes:
- pure lfs allocator for aligned pinfile allocation or file
defragmentation
- pure ssr allocator for later feature

So that, let's update aligned pinfile allocation to use this new
inmem curseg fwk.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>f2fs: support zone capacity less than zone size</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T21:03:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Aravind Ramesh</name>
<email>aravind.ramesh@wdc.com</email>
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<published>2020-07-16T12:56:56+00:00</published>
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NVMe Zoned Namespace devices can have zone-capacity less than zone-size.
Zone-capacity indicates the maximum number of sectors that are usable in
a zone beginning from the first sector of the zone. This makes the sectors
sectors after the zone-capacity till zone-size to be unusable.
This patch set tracks zone-size and zone-capacity in zoned devices and
calculate the usable blocks per segment and usable segments per section.

If zone-capacity is less than zone-size mark only those segments which
start before zone-capacity as free segments. All segments at and beyond
zone-capacity are treated as permanently used segments. In cases where
zone-capacity does not align with segment size the last segment will start
before zone-capacity and end beyond the zone-capacity of the zone. For
such spanning segments only sectors within the zone-capacity are used.

During writes and GC manage the usable segments in a section and usable
blocks per segment. Segments which are beyond zone-capacity are never
allocated, and do not need to be garbage collected, only the segments
which are before zone-capacity needs to garbage collected.
For spanning segments based on the number of usable blocks in that
segment, write to blocks only up to zone-capacity.

Zone-capacity is device specific and cannot be configured by the user.
Since NVMe ZNS device zones are sequentially write only, a block device
with conventional zones or any normal block device is needed along with
the ZNS device for the metadata operations of F2fs.

A typical nvme-cli output of a zoned device shows zone start and capacity
and write pointer as below:

SLBA: 0x0     WP: 0x0     Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x20000 WP: 0x20000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x40000 WP: 0x40000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ

Here zone size is 64MB, capacity is 49MB, WP is at zone start as the zones
are in EMPTY state. For each zone, only zone start + 49MB is usable area,
any lba/sector after 49MB cannot be read or written to, the drive will fail
any attempts to read/write. So, the second zone starts at 64MB and is
usable till 113MB (64 + 49) and the range between 113 and 128MB is
again unusable. The next zone starts at 128MB, and so on.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Ramesh &lt;aravind.ramesh@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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NVMe Zoned Namespace devices can have zone-capacity less than zone-size.
Zone-capacity indicates the maximum number of sectors that are usable in
a zone beginning from the first sector of the zone. This makes the sectors
sectors after the zone-capacity till zone-size to be unusable.
This patch set tracks zone-size and zone-capacity in zoned devices and
calculate the usable blocks per segment and usable segments per section.

If zone-capacity is less than zone-size mark only those segments which
start before zone-capacity as free segments. All segments at and beyond
zone-capacity are treated as permanently used segments. In cases where
zone-capacity does not align with segment size the last segment will start
before zone-capacity and end beyond the zone-capacity of the zone. For
such spanning segments only sectors within the zone-capacity are used.

During writes and GC manage the usable segments in a section and usable
blocks per segment. Segments which are beyond zone-capacity are never
allocated, and do not need to be garbage collected, only the segments
which are before zone-capacity needs to garbage collected.
For spanning segments based on the number of usable blocks in that
segment, write to blocks only up to zone-capacity.

Zone-capacity is device specific and cannot be configured by the user.
Since NVMe ZNS device zones are sequentially write only, a block device
with conventional zones or any normal block device is needed along with
the ZNS device for the metadata operations of F2fs.

A typical nvme-cli output of a zoned device shows zone start and capacity
and write pointer as below:

SLBA: 0x0     WP: 0x0     Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x20000 WP: 0x20000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x40000 WP: 0x40000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ

Here zone size is 64MB, capacity is 49MB, WP is at zone start as the zones
are in EMPTY state. For each zone, only zone start + 49MB is usable area,
any lba/sector after 49MB cannot be read or written to, the drive will fail
any attempts to read/write. So, the second zone starts at 64MB and is
usable till 113MB (64 + 49) and the range between 113 and 128MB is
again unusable. The next zone starts at 128MB, and so on.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Ramesh &lt;aravind.ramesh@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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