Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to redirty page if fail to gc data page

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Sun May 29 2016 - 22:37:12 EST


Hi Chao,

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 01:19:11PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If we fail to move data page during foreground GC, we should give another
> chance to writeback that page which was set dirty previously by writer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/f2fs/gc.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> index 38d56f6..ee213a8 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
> @@ -653,12 +653,15 @@ static void move_data_page(struct inode *inode, block_t bidx, int gc_type)
> .page = page,
> .encrypted_page = NULL,
> };
> + bool is_dirty = PageDirty(page);
> +
> set_page_dirty(page);
> f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(page, DATA, true);
> if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page))
> inode_dec_dirty_pages(inode);
> set_cold_data(page);
> - do_write_data_page(&fio);
> + if (do_write_data_page(&fio) && is_dirty)
> + set_page_dirty(page);

If this page is truncated with -ENOENT, we don't need to set it dirty again.
I expect that, if we get an error here, do_garbage_collect() would retry FG_GC
again.

Thanks,

> clear_cold_data(page);
> }
> out:
> --
> 2.7.2