Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] f2fs: avoid infinite GC loop due to stale atomic files

[Chao Yu]

On 2019/9/9 9:25, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> If committing atomic pages is failed when doing f2fs_do_sync_file(), we can
> get commited pages but atomic_file being still set like:
> 
> - inmem:    0, atomic IO:    4 (Max.   10), volatile IO:    0 (Max.    0)
> 
> If GC selects this block, we can get an infinite loop like this:
> 
> f2fs_submit_page_bio: dev = (253,7), ino = 2, page_index = 0x2359a8, oldaddr = 0x2359a8, newaddr = 0x2359a8, rw = READ(), type = COLD_DATA
> f2fs_submit_read_bio: dev = (253,7)/(253,7), rw = READ(), DATA, sector = 18533696, size = 4096
> f2fs_get_victim: dev = (253,7), type = No TYPE, policy = (Foreground GC, LFS-mode, Greedy), victim = 4355, cost = 1, ofs_unit = 1, pre_victim_secno = 4355, prefree = 0, free = 234
> f2fs_iget: dev = (253,7), ino = 6247, pino = 5845, i_mode = 0x81b0, i_size = 319488, i_nlink = 1, i_blocks = 624, i_advise = 0x2c
> f2fs_submit_page_bio: dev = (253,7), ino = 2, page_index = 0x2359a8, oldaddr = 0x2359a8, newaddr = 0x2359a8, rw = READ(), type = COLD_DATA
> f2fs_submit_read_bio: dev = (253,7)/(253,7), rw = READ(), DATA, sector = 18533696, size = 4096
> f2fs_get_victim: dev = (253,7), type = No TYPE, policy = (Foreground GC, LFS-mode, Greedy), victim = 4355, cost = 1, ofs_unit = 1, pre_victim_secno = 4355, prefree = 0, free = 234
> f2fs_iget: dev = (253,7), ino = 6247, pino = 5845, i_mode = 0x81b0, i_size = 319488, i_nlink = 1, i_blocks = 624, i_advise = 0x2c
> 
> In that moment, we can observe:
> 
> [Before]
> Try to move 5084219 blocks (BG: 384508)
>   - data blocks : 4962373 (274483)
>   - node blocks : 121846 (110025)
> Skipped : atomic write 4534686 (10)
> 
> [After]
> Try to move 5088973 blocks (BG: 384508)
>   - data blocks : 4967127 (274483)
>   - node blocks : 121846 (110025)
> Skipped : atomic write 4539440 (10)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/file.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> index 7ae2f3bd8c2f..68b6da734e5f 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> @@ -1997,11 +1997,11 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write(struct file *filp)
>  			goto err_out;
>  
>  		ret = f2fs_do_sync_file(filp, 0, LLONG_MAX, 0, true);
> -		if (!ret) {
> -			clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
> -			F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_failures[GC_FAILURE_ATOMIC] = 0;
> -			stat_dec_atomic_write(inode);
> -		}
> +
> +		/* doesn't need to check error */
> +		clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_ATOMIC_FILE);
> +		F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_failures[GC_FAILURE_ATOMIC] = 0;
> +		stat_dec_atomic_write(inode);

If there are still valid atomic write pages linked in .inmem_pages, it may cause
memory leak when we just clear FI_ATOMIC_FILE flag.

So my question is why below logic didn't handle such condition well?

f2fs_gc()

	if (has_not_enough_free_secs(sbi, sec_freed, 0)) {
		if (skipped_round <= MAX_SKIP_GC_COUNT ||
					skipped_round * 2 < round) {
			segno = NULL_SEGNO;
			goto gc_more;
		}

		if (first_skipped < last_skipped &&
				(last_skipped - first_skipped) >
						sbi->skipped_gc_rwsem) {
			f2fs_drop_inmem_pages_all(sbi, true);
			segno = NULL_SEGNO;
			goto gc_more;
		}
		if (gc_type == FG_GC && !is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_CP_DISABLED))
			ret = f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
	}

>  	} else {
>  		ret = f2fs_do_sync_file(filp, 0, LLONG_MAX, 1, false);
>  	}
>