1. 12 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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      f2fs: avoid balanc_fs during evict_inode · d4686d56
      Jaegeuk Kim 提交于
      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>
      d4686d56
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  5. 11 12月, 2012 3 次提交
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      f2fs: adjust kernel coding style · 0a8165d7
      Jaegeuk Kim 提交于
      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>
      0a8165d7
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      f2fs: fix endian conversion bugs reported by sparse · 25ca923b
      Jaegeuk Kim 提交于
      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>
      25ca923b
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      f2fs: add recovery routines for roll-forward · d624c96f
      Jaegeuk Kim 提交于
      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>
      d624c96f