diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index b69f190fb19592481239a0e4b6f71c2c039748ee..5f7dc4f6eb09abf1083fa19c33206c82ba31ba1a 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -451,6 +451,9 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
 	struct f2fs_gc_kthread	*gc_thread;	/* GC thread */
 	unsigned int cur_victim_sec;		/* current victim section num */
 
+	/* maximum # of trials to find a victim segment for SSR and GC */
+	unsigned int max_victim_search;
+
 	/*
 	 * for stat information.
 	 * one is for the LFS mode, and the other is for the SSR mode.
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 599f546d042c556acba706ba93e69cf241bc5025..9117ccaf254ae450f8c2af063364193ee104dbc5 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type,
 		p->ofs_unit = sbi->segs_per_sec;
 	}
 
-	if (p->max_search > MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH)
-		p->max_search = MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH;
+	if (p->max_search > sbi->max_victim_search)
+		p->max_search = sbi->max_victim_search;
 
 	p->offset = sbi->last_victim[p->gc_mode];
 }
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.h b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
index 507056d22205bc3887df8ae4c778261647620d6a..5d5eb6047bf467a4c27fba131acdf7ffbff4ab20 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #define LIMIT_FREE_BLOCK	40 /* percentage over invalid + free space */
 
 /* Search max. number of dirty segments to select a victim segment */
-#define MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH 4096 /* covers 8GB */
+#define DEF_MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH 4096 /* covers 8GB */
 
 struct f2fs_gc_kthread {
 	struct task_struct *f2fs_gc_task;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index f16da92a78994faae4c9409571492505adecf786..b070f3010ce9200fdf78c8d92710eeb5efcd6a2a 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static match_table_t f2fs_tokens = {
 enum {
 	GC_THREAD,	/* struct f2fs_gc_thread */
 	SM_INFO,	/* struct f2fs_sm_info */
+	F2FS_SBI,	/* struct f2fs_sb_info */
 };
 
 struct f2fs_attr {
@@ -91,6 +92,8 @@ static unsigned char *__struct_ptr(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int struct_type)
 		return (unsigned char *)sbi->gc_thread;
 	else if (struct_type == SM_INFO)
 		return (unsigned char *)SM_I(sbi);
+	else if (struct_type == F2FS_SBI)
+		return (unsigned char *)sbi;
 	return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -180,6 +183,7 @@ F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, reclaim_segments, rec_prefree_segments);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, max_small_discards, max_discards);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, ipu_policy, ipu_policy);
 F2FS_RW_ATTR(SM_INFO, f2fs_sm_info, min_ipu_util, min_ipu_util);
+F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, max_victim_search, max_victim_search);
 
 #define ATTR_LIST(name) (&f2fs_attr_##name.attr)
 static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
@@ -191,6 +195,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
 	ATTR_LIST(max_small_discards),
 	ATTR_LIST(ipu_policy),
 	ATTR_LIST(min_ipu_util),
+	ATTR_LIST(max_victim_search),
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -775,6 +780,7 @@ static void init_sb_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	sbi->node_ino_num = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->node_ino);
 	sbi->meta_ino_num = le32_to_cpu(raw_super->meta_ino);
 	sbi->cur_victim_sec = NULL_SECNO;
+	sbi->max_victim_search = DEF_MAX_VICTIM_SEARCH;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_COUNT_TYPE; i++)
 		atomic_set(&sbi->nr_pages[i], 0);