f2fs: compress: add nocompress extensions support

When we create a directory with enable compression, all file write into
directory will try to compress.But sometimes we may know, new file
cannot me

f2fs: compress: add nocompress extensions support

When we create a directory with enable compression, all file write into
directory will try to compress.But sometimes we may know, new file
cannot meet compression ratio requirements.
We need a nocompress extension to skip those files to avoid unnecessary
compress page test.

After add nocompress_extension, the priority should be:
dir_flag < comp_extention,nocompress_extension < comp_file_flag,
no_comp_file_flag.

Priority in between FS_COMPR_FL, FS_NOCOMP_FS, extensions:
* compress_extension=so; nocompress_extension=zip; chattr +c dir;
touch dir/foo.so; touch dir/bar.zip; touch dir/baz.txt; then foo.so
and baz.txt should be compresse, bar.zip should be non-compressed.
chattr +c dir/bar.zip can enable compress on bar.zip.
* compress_extension=so; nocompress_extension=zip; chattr -c dir;
touch dir/foo.so; touch dir/bar.zip; touch dir/baz.txt; then foo.so
should be compresse, bar.zip and baz.txt should be non-compressed.
chattr+c dir/bar.zip; chattr+c dir/baz.txt; can enable compress on
bar.zip and baz.txt.

Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: enable extent cache for compression files in read-only

Let's allow extent cache for RO partition.

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Sig

f2fs: enable extent cache for compression files in read-only

Let's allow extent cache for RO partition.

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: swap: support migrating swapfile in aligned write mode

This patch supports to migrate swapfile in aligned write mode during
swapon in order to keep swapfile being aligned to section as much as

f2fs: swap: support migrating swapfile in aligned write mode

This patch supports to migrate swapfile in aligned write mode during
swapon in order to keep swapfile being aligned to section as much as
possible, then pinned swapfile will locates fully filled section which
may not affected by GC.

However, for the case that swapfile's size is not aligned to section
size, it will still leave last extent in file's tail as unaligned due
to its size is smaller than section size, like case #2.

case #1
xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/file -c "pwrite 0 4M" -c "fsync"

Before swapon:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE TOTAL FLAGS
0: [0..3047]: 1123352..1126399 3048 0x1000
1: [3048..7143]: 237568..241663 4096 0x1000
2: [7144..8191]: 245760..246807 1048 0x1001
After swapon:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE TOTAL FLAGS
0: [0..8191]: 249856..258047 8192 0x1001
Kmsg:
F2FS-fs (zram0): Swapfile (2) is not align to section:
1) creat(), 2) ioctl(F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE), 3) fallocate(2097152 * n)

case #2
xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/file -c "pwrite 0 3M" -c "fsync"

Before swapon:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE TOTAL FLAGS
0: [0..3047]: 246808..249855 3048 0x1000
1: [3048..6143]: 237568..240663 3096 0x1001
After swapon:
EXT: FILE-OFFSET BLOCK-RANGE TOTAL FLAGS
0: [0..4095]: 258048..262143 4096 0x1000
1: [4096..6143]: 238616..240663 2048 0x1001
Kmsg:
F2FS-fs (zram0): Swapfile: last extent is not aligned to section
F2FS-fs (zram0): Swapfile (2) is not align to section:
1) creat(), 2) ioctl(F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE), 3) fallocate(2097152 * n)

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: compress: add compress_inode to cache compressed blocks

Support to use address space of inner inode to cache compressed block,
in order to improve cache hit ratio of random read.

Signed-off-b

f2fs: compress: add compress_inode to cache compressed blocks

Support to use address space of inner inode to cache compressed block,
in order to improve cache hit ratio of random read.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: clean up /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features

Let's create /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/feature_list/ to meet sysfs rule.

Note that there are three feature list entries:
1) /sys/fs/f2fs/features
: shows run

f2fs: clean up /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/features

Let's create /sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/feature_list/ to meet sysfs rule.

Note that there are three feature list entries:
1) /sys/fs/f2fs/features
: shows runtime features supported by in-kernel f2fs along with Kconfig.
- ref. F2FS_FEATURE_RO_ATTR()

2) /sys/fs/f2fs/$s_id/features <deprecated>
: shows on-disk features enabled by mkfs.f2fs, used for old kernels. This
won't add new feature anymore, and thus, users should check entries in 3)
instead of this 2).

3) /sys/fs/f2fs/$s_id/feature_list
: shows on-disk features enabled by mkfs.f2fs per instance, which follows
sysfs entry rule where each entry should expose single value.
This list covers old feature list provided by 2) and beyond. Therefore,
please add new on-disk feature in this list only.
- ref. F2FS_SB_FEATURE_RO_ATTR()

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: support RO feature

Given RO feature in superblock, we don't need to check provisioning/reserve
spaces and SSA area.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaege

f2fs: support RO feature

Given RO feature in superblock, we don't need to check provisioning/reserve
spaces and SSA area.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: introduce FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED instead of using IMMUTABLE bit

Once we release compressed blocks, we used to set IMMUTABLE bit. But it turned
out it disallows every fs operations which we don't

f2fs: introduce FI_COMPRESS_RELEASED instead of using IMMUTABLE bit

Once we release compressed blocks, we used to set IMMUTABLE bit. But it turned
out it disallows every fs operations which we don't need for compression.

Let's just prevent writing data only.

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: fix to avoid racing on fsync_entry_slab by multi filesystem instances

As syzbot reported, there is an use-after-free issue during f2fs recovery:

Use-after-free write at 0xffff88823bc16040 (in

f2fs: fix to avoid racing on fsync_entry_slab by multi filesystem instances

As syzbot reported, there is an use-after-free issue during f2fs recovery:

Use-after-free write at 0xffff88823bc16040 (in kfence-#10):
kmem_cache_destroy+0x1f/0x120 mm/slab_common.c:486
f2fs_recover_fsync_data+0x75b0/0x8380 fs/f2fs/recovery.c:869
f2fs_fill_super+0x9393/0xa420 fs/f2fs/super.c:3945
mount_bdev+0x26c/0x3a0 fs/super.c:1367
legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:592
vfs_get_tree+0x86/0x270 fs/super.c:1497
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2905 [inline]
path_mount+0x196f/0x2be0 fs/namespace.c:3235
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3248 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3456 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x2f9/0x3b0 fs/namespace.c:3433
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The root cause is multi f2fs filesystem instances can race on accessing
global fsync_entry_slab pointer, result in use-after-free issue of slab
cache, fixes to init/destroy this slab cache only once during module
init/destroy procedure to avoid this issue.

Reported-by: syzbot+9d90dad32dd9727ed084@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: restructure f2fs page.private layout

Restruct f2fs page private layout for below reasons:

There are some cases that f2fs wants to set a flag in a page to
indicate a specified status of page:

f2fs: restructure f2fs page.private layout

Restruct f2fs page private layout for below reasons:

There are some cases that f2fs wants to set a flag in a page to
indicate a specified status of page:
a) page is in transaction list for atomic write
b) page contains dummy data for aligned write
c) page is migrating for GC
d) page contains inline data for inline inode flush
e) page belongs to merkle tree, and is verified for fsverity
f) page is dirty and has filesystem/inode reference count for writeback
g) page is temporary and has decompress io context reference for compression

There are existed places in page structure we can use to store
f2fs private status/data:
- page.flags: PG_checked, PG_private
- page.private

However it was a mess when we using them, which may cause potential
confliction:
page.private PG_private PG_checked page._refcount (+1 at most)
a) -1 set +1
b) -2 set
c), d), e) set
f) 0 set +1
g) pointer set

The other problem is page.flags has no free slot, if we can avoid set
zero to page.private and set PG_private flag, then we use non-zero value
to indicate PG_private status, so that we may have chance to reclaim
PG_private slot for other usage. [1]

The other concern is f2fs has bad scalability in aspect of indicating
more page status.

So in this patch, let's restructure f2fs' page.private as below to
solve above issues:

Layout A: lowest bit should be 1
| bit0 = 1 | bit1 | bit2 | ... | bit MAX | private data .... |
bit 0 PAGE_PRIVATE_NOT_POINTER
bit 1 PAGE_PRIVATE_ATOMIC_WRITE
bit 2 PAGE_PRIVATE_DUMMY_WRITE
bit 3 PAGE_PRIVATE_ONGOING_MIGRATION
bit 4 PAGE_PRIVATE_INLINE_INODE
bit 5 PAGE_PRIVATE_REF_RESOURCE
bit 6- f2fs private data

Layout B: lowest bit should be 0
page.private is a wrapped pointer.

After the change:
page.private PG_private PG_checked page._refcount (+1 at most)
a) 11 set +1
b) 101 set +1
c) 1001 set +1
d) 10001 set +1
e) set
f) 100001 set +1
g) pointer set +1

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20210422154705.GO3596236@casper.infradead.org/T/#u

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: compress: fix to assign cc.cluster_idx correctly

In f2fs_destroy_compress_ctx(), after f2fs_destroy_compress_ctx(),
cc.cluster_idx will be cleared w/ NULL_CLUSTER, f2fs_cluster_blocks()
may ch

f2fs: compress: fix to assign cc.cluster_idx correctly

In f2fs_destroy_compress_ctx(), after f2fs_destroy_compress_ctx(),
cc.cluster_idx will be cleared w/ NULL_CLUSTER, f2fs_cluster_blocks()
may check wrong cluster metadata, fix it.

Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes

Commit d5f7bc0064e0 ("f2fs: deprecate f2fs_trace_io") left some
dead codes, delete them.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jae

f2fs: clean up left deprecated IO trace codes

Commit d5f7bc0064e0 ("f2fs: deprecate f2fs_trace_io") left some
dead codes, delete them.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()

As we did for other cases, in fix_curseg_write_pointer(), let's
use wrapped f2fs_allocate_new_section() instead of native
allocate_segment_by_d

f2fs: avoid using native allocate_segment_by_default()

As we did for other cases, in fix_curseg_write_pointer(), let's
use wrapped f2fs_allocate_new_section() instead of native
allocate_segment_by_default(), by this way, it fixes to cover
segment allocation with curseg_lock and sentry_lock.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration

struct dnode_of_data is defined at 897th line.
The declaration here is unnecessary. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-

f2fs: remove unnecessary struct declaration

struct dnode_of_data is defined at 897th line.
The declaration here is unnecessary. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: convert to fileattr

Use the fileattr API to let the VFS handle locking, permission checking and
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel

f2fs: convert to fileattr

Use the fileattr API to let the VFS handle locking, permission checking and
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option

In this patch, we will add two new mount options: "gc_merge" and
"nogc_merge", when background_gc is on, "gc_merge" option can be
set to let background GC threa

f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option

In this patch, we will add two new mount options: "gc_merge" and
"nogc_merge", when background_gc is on, "gc_merge" option can be
set to let background GC thread to handle foreground GC requests,
it can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow foreground GC
operation when GC is triggered from a process with limited I/O
and CPU resources.

Original idea is from Xiang.

Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: fix to avoid touching checkpointed data in get_victim()

In CP disabling mode, there are two issues when using LFS or SSR | AT_SSR
mode to select victim:

1. LFS is set to find source section d

f2fs: fix to avoid touching checkpointed data in get_victim()

In CP disabling mode, there are two issues when using LFS or SSR | AT_SSR
mode to select victim:

1. LFS is set to find source section during GC, the victim should have
no checkpointed data, since after GC, section could not be set free for
reuse.

Previously, we only check valid chpt blocks in current segment rather
than section, fix it.

2. SSR | AT_SSR are set to find target segment for writes which can be
fully filled by checkpointed and newly written blocks, we should never
select such segment, otherwise it can cause panic or data corruption
during allocation, potential case is described as below:

a) target segment has 'n' (n < 512) ckpt valid blocks
b) GC migrates 'n' valid blocks to other segment (segment is still
in dirty list)
c) GC migrates '512 - n' blocks to target segment (segment has 'n'
cp_vblocks and '512 - n' vblocks)
d) If GC selects target segment via {AT,}SSR allocator, however there
is no free space in targe segment.

Fixes: 4354994f097d ("f2fs: checkpoint disabling")
Fixes: 093749e296e2 ("f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: fix wrong comment of nat_tree_lock

Do trivial comment fix of nat_tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: qiulaibin <qiulaibin@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Ki

f2fs: fix wrong comment of nat_tree_lock

Do trivial comment fix of nat_tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: qiulaibin <qiulaibin@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: add sysfs nodes to get runtime compression stat

I've added new sysfs nodes to show runtime compression stat since mount.
compr_written_block - show the block count written after compression
co

f2fs: add sysfs nodes to get runtime compression stat

I've added new sysfs nodes to show runtime compression stat since mount.
compr_written_block - show the block count written after compression
compr_saved_block - show the saved block count with compression
compr_new_inode - show the count of inode newly enabled for compression

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: fix to align to section for fallocate() on pinned file

Now, fallocate() on a pinned file only allocates blocks which aligns
to segment rather than section, so GC may try to migrate pinned file

f2fs: fix to align to section for fallocate() on pinned file

Now, fallocate() on a pinned file only allocates blocks which aligns
to segment rather than section, so GC may try to migrate pinned file's
block, and after several times of failure, pinned file's block could
be migrated to other place, however user won't be aware of such
condition, and then old obsolete block address may be readed/written
incorrectly.

To avoid such condition, let's try to allocate pinned file's blocks
with section alignment.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: remove unused file_clear_encrypt()

- file_clear_encrypt() was never be used, remove it.
- In addition, relocating macros for cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by

f2fs: remove unused file_clear_encrypt()

- file_clear_encrypt() was never be used, remove it.
- In addition, relocating macros for cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: remove unnecessary IS_SWAPFILE check

Now swapfile in f2fs directly submit IO to blockdev according to
swapfile extents reported by f2fs when swapon, therefore there is
no need to check IS_SWAP

f2fs: remove unnecessary IS_SWAPFILE check

Now swapfile in f2fs directly submit IO to blockdev according to
swapfile extents reported by f2fs when swapon, therefore there is
no need to check IS_SWAPFILE when exec filesystem operation.

Signed-off-by: Huang Jianan <huangjianan@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Weichao <guoweichao@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kerne

f2fs: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member

There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

Refactor the code according to the use of a flexible-array member in
struct f2fs_checkpoint, instead of a one-element arrays.

Notice that a temporary pointer to void '*tmp_ptr' was used in order to
fix the following errors when using a flexible array instead of a one
element array in struct f2fs_checkpoint:

CC [M] fs/f2fs/dir.o
In file included from fs/f2fs/dir.c:13:
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h: In function ‘__bitmap_ptr’:
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2227:40: error: invalid use of flexible array member
2227 | return &ckpt->sit_nat_version_bitmap + offset + sizeof(__le32);
| ^
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2227:49: error: invalid use of flexible array member
2227 | return &ckpt->sit_nat_version_bitmap + offset + sizeof(__le32);
| ^
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2238:40: error: invalid use of flexible array member
2238 | return &ckpt->sit_nat_version_bitmap + offset;
| ^
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:287: fs/f2fs/dir.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:530: fs/f2fs] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1819: fs] Error 2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Build-tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/603647e4.DeEFbl4eqljuwAUe%25lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: fix to allow migrating fully valid segment

F2FS_IOC_FLUSH_DEVICE/F2FS_IOC_RESIZE_FS needs to migrate all blocks of
target segment to other place, no matter the segment has partially or fully
v

f2fs: fix to allow migrating fully valid segment

F2FS_IOC_FLUSH_DEVICE/F2FS_IOC_RESIZE_FS needs to migrate all blocks of
target segment to other place, no matter the segment has partially or fully
valid blocks.

However, after commit 803e74be04b3 ("f2fs: stop GC when the victim becomes
fully valid"), we may skip migration due to target segment is fully valid,
result in failing the ioctl interface, fix this.

Fixes: 803e74be04b3 ("f2fs: stop GC when the victim becomes fully valid")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: add ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs node

Added "ckpt_thread_ioprio" sysfs node to give a way to change checkpoint
merge daemon's io priority. Its default value is "be,3", which means
"BE" I/O class a

f2fs: add ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs node

Added "ckpt_thread_ioprio" sysfs node to give a way to change checkpoint
merge daemon's io priority. Its default value is "be,3", which means
"BE" I/O class and I/O priority "3". We can select the class between "rt"
and "be", and set the I/O priority within valid range of it.
"," delimiter is necessary in between I/O class and priority number.

Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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f2fs: introduce checkpoint_merge mount option

We've added a new mount options, "checkpoint_merge" and "nocheckpoint_merge",
which creates a kernel daemon and makes it to merge concurrent checkpoint

f2fs: introduce checkpoint_merge mount option

We've added a new mount options, "checkpoint_merge" and "nocheckpoint_merge",
which creates a kernel daemon and makes it to merge concurrent checkpoint
requests as much as possible to eliminate redundant checkpoint issues. Plus,
we can eliminate the sluggish issue caused by slow checkpoint operation
when the checkpoint is done in a process context in a cgroup having
low i/o budget and cpu shares. To make this do better, we set the
default i/o priority of the kernel daemon to "3", to give one higher
priority than other kernel threads. The below verification result
explains this.
The basic idea has come from https://opensource.samsung.com.

[Verification]
Android Pixel Device(ARM64, 7GB RAM, 256GB UFS)
Create two I/O cgroups (fg w/ weight 100, bg w/ wight 20)
Set "strict_guarantees" to "1" in BFQ tunables

In "fg" cgroup,
- thread A => trigger 1000 checkpoint operations
"for i in `seq 1 1000`; do touch test_dir1/file; fsync test_dir1;
done"
- thread B => gererating async. I/O
"fio --rw=write --numjobs=1 --bs=128k --runtime=3600 --time_based=1
--filename=test_img --name=test"

In "bg" cgroup,
- thread C => trigger repeated checkpoint operations
"echo $$ > /dev/blkio/bg/tasks; while true; do touch test_dir2/file;
fsync test_dir2; done"

We've measured thread A's execution time.

[ w/o patch ]
Elapsed Time: Avg. 68 seconds
[ w/ patch ]
Elapsed Time: Avg. 48 seconds

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix the return value in f2fs_start_ckpt_thread, reported by Dan]
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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