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 <stumm...@codeaurora.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; if (sync) -- Qualcomm India Private Limited, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.