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authorJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2016-01-23 22:00:57 +0800
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2016-02-22 16:07:23 -0800
commit6e17bfbc75a5cb9c363ba488bf57cd0152bc3ec0 (patch)
tree7ed3a95c3e90bf6602371b78c72911dcfa51aeaf
parent25c13551519c66453737e038d104058f94b2e70a (diff)
downloadlinux-6e17bfbc75a5cb9c363ba488bf57cd0152bc3ec0.tar.gz
f2fs: fix to overcome inline_data floods
The scenario is:
1. create lots of node blocks
2. sync
3. write lots of inline_data
-> got panic due to no free space

In that case, we should flush node blocks when writing inline_data in #3,
and trigger gc as well.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/gc.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index f610c2a9bdde..4a704a16bf17 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -838,8 +838,15 @@ gc_more:
 
 	if (gc_type == BG_GC && has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, sec_freed)) {
 		gc_type = FG_GC;
+		/*
+		 * If there is no victim and no prefree segment but still not
+		 * enough free sections, we should flush dent/node blocks and do
+		 * garbage collections.
+		 */
 		if (__get_victim(sbi, &segno, gc_type) || prefree_segments(sbi))
 			write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
+		else if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0))
+			write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
 	}
 
 	if (segno == NULL_SEGNO && !__get_victim(sbi, &segno, gc_type))