FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: add ovp valid_blocks check for bg gc victim to fg_gc" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] f2fs: add ovp valid_blocks check for bg gc victim to fg_gc" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From e93b9865251a0503d83fd570e7d5a7c8bc351715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hou Pengyang <houpengyang@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:34:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: add ovp valid_blocks check for bg gc victim to fg_gc

For foreground gc, greedy algorithm should be adapted, which makes
this formula work well:

	(2 * (100 / config.overprovision + 1) + 6)

But currently, we fg_gc have a prior to select bg_gc victim segments to gc
first, these victims are selected by cost-benefit algorithm, we can't guarantee
such segments have the small valid blocks, which may destroy the f2fs rule, on
the worstest case, would consume all the free segments.

This patch fix this by add a filter in check_bg_victims, if segment's has # of
valid blocks over overprovision ratio, skip such segments.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hou Pengyang <houpengyang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 7b5e287ac127..146cc71ff91c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -890,6 +890,9 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
 	struct f2fs_gc_kthread	*gc_thread;	/* GC thread */
 	unsigned int cur_victim_sec;		/* current victim section num */
 
+	/* threshold for converting bg victims for fg */
+	u64 fggc_threshold;
+
 	/* maximum # of trials to find a victim segment for SSR and GC */
 	unsigned int max_victim_search;
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 5ee258ebf6ca..e93aecb0138b 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ static void select_policy(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int gc_type,
 		p->ofs_unit = sbi->segs_per_sec;
 	}
 
-	if (p->max_search > sbi->max_victim_search)
+	/* we need to check every dirty segments in the FG_GC case */
+	if (gc_type != FG_GC && p->max_search > sbi->max_victim_search)
 		p->max_search = sbi->max_victim_search;
 
 	p->offset = sbi->last_victim[p->gc_mode];
@@ -199,6 +200,10 @@ static unsigned int check_bg_victims(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	for_each_set_bit(secno, dirty_i->victim_secmap, MAIN_SECS(sbi)) {
 		if (sec_usage_check(sbi, secno))
 			continue;
+
+		if (no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno))
+			continue;
+
 		clear_bit(secno, dirty_i->victim_secmap);
 		return secno * sbi->segs_per_sec;
 	}
@@ -322,13 +327,15 @@ static int get_victim_by_default(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 			nsearched++;
 		}
 
-
 		secno = GET_SECNO(sbi, segno);
 
 		if (sec_usage_check(sbi, secno))
 			goto next;
 		if (gc_type == BG_GC && test_bit(secno, dirty_i->victim_secmap))
 			goto next;
+		if (gc_type == FG_GC && p.alloc_mode == LFS &&
+					no_fggc_candidate(sbi, secno))
+			goto next;
 
 		cost = get_gc_cost(sbi, segno, &p);
 
@@ -985,5 +992,16 @@ int f2fs_gc(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool sync, bool background)
 
 void build_gc_manager(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
+	u64 main_count, resv_count, ovp_count, blocks_per_sec;
+
 	DIRTY_I(sbi)->v_ops = &default_v_ops;
+
+	/* threshold of # of valid blocks in a section for victims of FG_GC */
+	main_count = SM_I(sbi)->main_segments << sbi->log_blocks_per_seg;
+	resv_count = SM_I(sbi)->reserved_segments << sbi->log_blocks_per_seg;
+	ovp_count = SM_I(sbi)->ovp_segments << sbi->log_blocks_per_seg;
+	blocks_per_sec = sbi->blocks_per_seg * sbi->segs_per_sec;
+
+	sbi->fggc_threshold = div_u64((main_count - ovp_count) * blocks_per_sec,
+					(main_count - resv_count));
 }
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.h b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
index 5cb5755c75d9..f4020f141d83 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.h
@@ -716,6 +716,15 @@ static inline block_t sum_blk_addr(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int base, int type)
 				- (base + 1) + type;
 }
 
+static inline bool no_fggc_candidate(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
+						unsigned int secno)
+{
+	if (get_valid_blocks(sbi, secno, sbi->segs_per_sec) >=
+						sbi->fggc_threshold)
+		return true;
+	return false;
+}
+
 static inline bool sec_usage_check(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, unsigned int secno)
 {
 	if (IS_CURSEC(sbi, secno) || (sbi->cur_victim_sec == secno))