This patch makes clearer the ambiguous f2fs_gc flow as follows.

1. Remove intermediate checkpoint condition during f2fs_gc
 (i.e., should_do_checkpoint() and GC_BLOCKED)

2. Remove unnecessary return values of f2fs_gc because of #1.
 (i.e., GC_NODE, GC_OK, etc)

3. Simplify write_checkpoint() because of #2.

4. Clarify the main f2fs_gc flow.
 o monitor how many freed sections during one iteration of do_garbage_collect().
 o do GC more without checkpoints if we can't get enough free sections.
 o do checkpoint once we've got enough free sections through forground GCs.

5. Adopt thread-logging (Slack-Space-Recycle) scheme more aggressively on data
  log types. See. get_ssr_segement()
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

1. Background

Previously, if f2fs tries to move data blocks of an *evicting* inode during the
cleaning process, it stops the process incompletely and then restarts the whole
process, since it needs a locked inode to grab victim data pages in its address
space. In order to get a locked inode, iget_locked() by f2fs_iget() is normally
used, but, it waits if the inode is on freeing.

So, here is a deadlock scenario.
1. f2fs_evict_inode()       <- inode "A"
  2. f2fs_balance_fs()
    3. f2fs_gc()
      4. gc_data_segment()
        5. f2fs_iget()      <- inode "A" too!

If step #1 and #5 treat a same inode "A", step #5 would fall into deadlock since
the inode "A" is on freeing. In order to resolve this, f2fs_iget_nowait() which
skips __wait_on_freeing_inode() was introduced in step #5, and stops f2fs_gc()
to complete f2fs_evict_inode().

1. f2fs_evict_inode()           <- inode "A"
  2. f2fs_balance_fs()
    3. f2fs_gc()
      4. gc_data_segment()
        5. f2fs_iget_nowait()   <- inode "A", then stop f2fs_gc() w/ -ENOENT

2. Problem and Solution

In the above scenario, however, f2fs cannot finish f2fs_evict_inode() only if:
 o there are not enough free sections, and
 o f2fs_gc() tries to move data blocks of the *evicting* inode repeatedly.

So, the final solution is to use f2fs_iget() and remove f2fs_balance_fs() in
f2fs_evict_inode().
The f2fs_evict_inode() actually truncates all the data and node blocks, which
means that it doesn't produce any dirty node pages accordingly.
So, we don't need to do f2fs_balance_fs() in practical.
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

those should never be used for a lot of reasons...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

This is calling list_del() inside a loop which is a problem when we try
move to the next item on the list.  I've converted it to use the _safe
version.  And also, as a cleanup, I've converted it to use
list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

This patch resolves Coverity #753102:

>>> No check of the return value of "f2fs_add_link(&dent, inode)".
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

While creating a new entry for addition to the list(orphan inode list
and fsync inode entry list), there is no need to call HEAD initialization
for these entries. So, remove that init part.
Signed-off-by: NNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAmit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

In function find_fsync_dnodes() - the fsync inodes gets added to the list, but
in one path suppose f2fs_iget results in error, in such case - error gets added
to the fsync inode list.
In next call to recover_data()->get_fsync_inode()
entry = list_entry(this, struct fsync_inode_entry, list);
                if (entry->inode->i_ino == ino)
This can result in "invalid access to memory" when it encounters 'error' as
entry in the fsync inode list.
So, add the fsync inode entry to the list only in case of no errors.
And, free the object at that point itself in case of issue.
Signed-off-by: NNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAmit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

In case f2fs_iget_nowait returns error, it results in truncate_hole being
called with 'error' value as inode pointer. There is no check in truncate_hole
for valid inode, so it could result in crash due "invalid access to memory".
Avoid this by handling error condition properly.
Signed-off-by: NNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAmit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

As pointed out by Randy Dunlap, this patch removes all usage of "/**" for comment
blocks. Instead, just use "/*".
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

This patch should resolve the bugs reported by the sparse tool.
Initial reports were written by "kbuild test robot" managed by fengguang.wu.

In my local machines, I've tested also by running:
> make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"

Accordingly, I've found lots of warnings and bugs related to the endian
conversion. And I've fixed all at this moment.
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>

This adds roll-forward routines to recover fsynced data.

- F2FS uses basically roll-back model with checkpointing.

- In order to implement fsync(), there are two approaches as follows.

1. A roll-back model with checkpointing at every fsync()
 : This is a naive method, but suffers from very low performance.

2. A roll-forward model
 : F2FS adopts this model where all the fsynced data should be recovered, which
   were written after checkpointing was done. In order to figure out the data,
   F2FS keeps a "fsync" mark in direct node blocks. In addition, F2FS remains
   the location of next node block in each direct node block for reconstructing
   the chain of node blocks during the recovery.

- In order to enhance the performance, F2FS keeps a "dentry" mark also in direct
  node blocks. If this is set during the recovery, F2FS replays adding a dentry.
Signed-off-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>