diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 8d293cb685ba1caec0d3e98af15af4242c3ef2cb..b1e498503e59defca3f974db8d973e5fce868cb9 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static int gc_thread_func(void *data)
 int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
 	struct f2fs_gc_kthread *gc_th;
+	dev_t dev = sbi->sb->s_bdev->bd_dev;
 
 	if (!test_opt(sbi, BG_GC))
 		return 0;
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	sbi->gc_thread = gc_th;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&sbi->gc_thread->gc_wait_queue_head);
 	sbi->gc_thread->f2fs_gc_task = kthread_run(gc_thread_func, sbi,
-				GC_THREAD_NAME);
+			"f2fs_gc-%u:%u", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
 	if (IS_ERR(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task)) {
 		kfree(gc_th);
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.h b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
index b026d9354ccddf97bc8f82efbddd47bea8e2743f..3abdf83b5c16742f56ed20ecfe4d92f8d9259d2f 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.h
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */
-#define GC_THREAD_NAME	"f2fs_gc_task"
 #define GC_THREAD_MIN_WB_PAGES		1	/*
 						 * a threshold to determine
 						 * whether IO subsystem is idle