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    f2fs: Fix indefinite loop in f2fs_gc() · 957fa478
    Sahitya Tummala authored
    Policy - foreground GC, LFS mode and greedy GC mode.
    
    Under this policy, f2fs_gc() loops forever to GC as it doesn't have
    enough free segements to proceed and thus it keeps calling gc_more
    for the same victim segment.  This can happen if the selected victim
    segment could not be GC'd due to failed blkaddr validity check i.e.
    is_alive() returns false for the blocks set in current validity map.
    
    Fix this by not resetting the sbi->cur_victim_sec to NULL_SEGNO, when
    the segment selected could not be GC'd. This helps to select another
    segment for GC and thus helps to proceed forward with GC.
    
    [Note]
    This can happen due to is_alive as well as atomic_file which skipps
    GC.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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