Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: avoid frequent costly fsck triggers

[Jaegeuk Kim]

On 11/28, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi Jaeguek,
> 
> On 2018/11/28 15:31, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > If we want to re-enable nat_bits, we rely on fsck which requires full scan
> > of directory tree. Let's do that by regular fsck or unclean shutdown.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> BTW, I have patch made some month ago...
> 
> In order to detect nat_bits disabling, could we introduce one more flag for
> fsck?

Do we have a way to enable nat_bits very quickly in fsck?

> 
> >From 86e8bdb2faeec904944bb6621073f4f7de51cc2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 05:40:20 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: set specified flag after invalidating nat_bits
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c    | 12 +++++++++++-
>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h          |  3 ++-
>  fs/f2fs/node.c          |  3 +++
>  include/linux/f2fs_fs.h |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> index 7e17bb3dfcb1..f7fb14e0f5f9 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> @@ -1226,13 +1226,16 @@ static void update_ckpt_flags(struct f2fs_sb_info
> *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc)
>  	unsigned long orphan_num = sbi->im[ORPHAN_INO].ino_num;
>  	struct f2fs_checkpoint *ckpt = F2FS_CKPT(sbi);
>  	unsigned long flags;
> +	bool disable_natbits = false;
> 
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&sbi->cp_lock, flags);
> 
>  	if ((cpc->reason & CP_UMOUNT) &&
>  			le32_to_cpu(ckpt->cp_pack_total_block_count) >
> -			sbi->blocks_per_seg - NM_I(sbi)->nat_bits_blocks)
> +			sbi->blocks_per_seg - NM_I(sbi)->nat_bits_blocks) {
>  		disable_nat_bits(sbi, false);
> +		disable_natbits = true;
> +	}
> 
>  	if (cpc->reason & CP_TRIMMED)
>  		__set_ckpt_flags(ckpt, CP_TRIMMED_FLAG);
> @@ -1270,11 +1273,18 @@ static void update_ckpt_flags(struct f2fs_sb_info
> *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc)
>  	if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_QUOTA_NEED_REPAIR))
>  		__set_ckpt_flags(ckpt, CP_QUOTA_NEED_FSCK_FLAG);
> 
> +	if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_NATBIT_NEED_REPAIR))
> +		__set_ckpt_flags(ckpt, CP_NATBIT_NEED_FSCK_FLAG);
> +
>  	/* set this flag to activate crc|cp_ver for recovery */
>  	__set_ckpt_flags(ckpt, CP_CRC_RECOVERY_FLAG);
>  	__clear_ckpt_flags(ckpt, CP_NOCRC_RECOVERY_FLAG);
> 
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sbi->cp_lock, flags);
> +
> +	if (disable_natbits)
> +		f2fs_msg(sbi->sb, KERN_NOTICE,
> +			"No enough space in CP area, disable nat_bits.");
>  }
> 
>  static void commit_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> index f0cedbe0c536..b55341c269b2 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> @@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@ enum {
>  	SBI_QUOTA_NEED_FLUSH,			/* need to flush quota info in CP */
>  	SBI_QUOTA_SKIP_FLUSH,			/* skip flushing quota in current CP */
>  	SBI_QUOTA_NEED_REPAIR,			/* quota file may be corrupted */
> +	SBI_NATBIT_NEED_REPAIR,			/* nat full/empty bitmaps need repair */
>  };
> 
>  enum {
> @@ -1628,7 +1629,7 @@ static inline void disable_nat_bits(struct
> f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool lock)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
> 
> -	set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> +	set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NATBIT_NEED_REPAIR);
> 
>  	if (lock)
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&sbi->cp_lock, flags);
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
> index e57add1e8966..0c6f8312a087 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
> @@ -2902,6 +2902,9 @@ static int __get_nat_bitmaps(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> 
>  	cp_ver |= (cur_cp_crc(ckpt) << 32);
>  	if (cpu_to_le64(cp_ver) != *(__le64 *)nm_i->nat_bits) {
> +		f2fs_msg(sbi->sb, KERN_NOTICE,
> +			"Disable nat_bits due to incorrect cp_ver (%llu, %llu)",
> +			cp_ver, le64_to_cpu(*(__le64 *)nm_i->nat_bits));
>  		disable_nat_bits(sbi, true);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> diff --git a/include/linux/f2fs_fs.h b/include/linux/f2fs_fs.h
> index 7196653833fa..1f3ae1504573 100644
> --- a/include/linux/f2fs_fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/f2fs_fs.h
> @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct f2fs_super_block {
>  /*
>   * For checkpoint
>   */
> +#define CP_NATBIT_NEED_FSCK_FLAG	0X00002000
>  #define CP_DISABLED_FLAG		0x00001000
>  #define CP_QUOTA_NEED_FSCK_FLAG		0x00000800
>  #define CP_LARGE_NAT_BITMAP_FLAG	0x00000400
> -- 
> 2.18.0.rc1
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > index c28a9d1cb278..aa500239baf2 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > @@ -1621,7 +1621,11 @@ static inline void disable_nat_bits(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool lock)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  
> > -	set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> > +	/*
> > +	 * In order to re-enable nat_bits we need to call fsck.f2fs by
> > +	 * set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK). But it may give huge cost,
> > +	 * so let's rely on regular fsck or unclean shutdown.
> > +	 */
> >  
> >  	if (lock)
> >  		spin_lock_irqsave(&sbi->cp_lock, flags);
> >