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<title>f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS</title>
<updated>2023-04-10T17:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonggil Song</name>
<email>yonggil.song@samsung.com</email>
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<published>2023-03-21T00:12:51+00:00</published>
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When f2fs tries to checkpoint during foreground gc in LFS mode, system
crash occurs due to lack of free space if the amount of dirty node and
dentry pages generated by data migration exceeds free space.
The reproduction sequence is as follows.

 - 20GiB capacity block device (null_blk)
 - format and mount with LFS mode
 - create a file and write 20,000MiB
 - 4k random write on full range of the file

 RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x48a/0x510 [f2fs]
 Code: 55 e7 f5 89 c0 48 0f af c3 48 8b 5d c0 48 c1 e8 20 83 c0 01 89 43 6c 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc &lt;0f&gt; 0b f0 41 80 4f 48 04 45 85 f6 0f 84 ba fd ff ff e9 ef fe ff ff
 RSP: 0018:ffff977bc397b218 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000000027b9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000027c0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000027b9 RDI: ffff8c25ab4e74f8
 RBP: ffff977bc397b268 R08: 00000000000027b9 R09: ffff8c29e4a34b40
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff977bc397b0d8 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff8c25b4dd81a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8c2f667f9000
 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c344ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000c00055d000 CR3: 0000000e30810003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 allocate_segment_by_default+0x9c/0x110 [f2fs]
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x243/0xa30 [f2fs]
 ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xa0/0x150
 do_write_page+0x80/0x160 [f2fs]
 f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x32/0x50 [f2fs]
 __write_node_page+0x339/0x730 [f2fs]
 f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x5a6/0x780 [f2fs]
 block_operations+0x257/0x340 [f2fs]
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x102/0x1050 [f2fs]
 f2fs_gc+0x27c/0x630 [f2fs]
 ? folio_mark_dirty+0x36/0x70
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x16f/0x180 [f2fs]

This patch adds checking whether free sections are enough before checkpoint
during gc.

Signed-off-by: Yonggil Song &lt;yonggil.song@samsung.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: code clean-up]
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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When f2fs tries to checkpoint during foreground gc in LFS mode, system
crash occurs due to lack of free space if the amount of dirty node and
dentry pages generated by data migration exceeds free space.
The reproduction sequence is as follows.

 - 20GiB capacity block device (null_blk)
 - format and mount with LFS mode
 - create a file and write 20,000MiB
 - 4k random write on full range of the file

 RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x48a/0x510 [f2fs]
 Code: 55 e7 f5 89 c0 48 0f af c3 48 8b 5d c0 48 c1 e8 20 83 c0 01 89 43 6c 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc &lt;0f&gt; 0b f0 41 80 4f 48 04 45 85 f6 0f 84 ba fd ff ff e9 ef fe ff ff
 RSP: 0018:ffff977bc397b218 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000000027b9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000027c0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000027b9 RDI: ffff8c25ab4e74f8
 RBP: ffff977bc397b268 R08: 00000000000027b9 R09: ffff8c29e4a34b40
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff977bc397b0d8 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff8c25b4dd81a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8c2f667f9000
 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c344ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000c00055d000 CR3: 0000000e30810003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 allocate_segment_by_default+0x9c/0x110 [f2fs]
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x243/0xa30 [f2fs]
 ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xa0/0x150
 do_write_page+0x80/0x160 [f2fs]
 f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x32/0x50 [f2fs]
 __write_node_page+0x339/0x730 [f2fs]
 f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x5a6/0x780 [f2fs]
 block_operations+0x257/0x340 [f2fs]
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x102/0x1050 [f2fs]
 f2fs_gc+0x27c/0x630 [f2fs]
 ? folio_mark_dirty+0x36/0x70
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x16f/0x180 [f2fs]

This patch adds checking whether free sections are enough before checkpoint
during gc.

Signed-off-by: Yonggil Song &lt;yonggil.song@samsung.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: code clean-up]
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: factor out victim_entry usage from general rb_tree use</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T22:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaegeuk Kim</name>
<email>jaegeuk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-10T18:04:26+00:00</published>
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Let's reduce the complexity of mixed use of rb_tree in victim_entry from
extent_cache and discard_cmd.

This should fix arm32 memory alignment issue caused by shared rb_entry.

[struct victim_entry]              [struct rb_entry]
[0] struct rb_node rb_node;        [0] struct rb_node rb_node;
                                       union {
                                         struct {
                                           unsigned int ofs;
                                           unsigned int len;
                                         };
[16] unsigned long long mtime;     [12] unsigned long long key;
                                       } __packed;

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 093749e296e2 ("f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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Let's reduce the complexity of mixed use of rb_tree in victim_entry from
extent_cache and discard_cmd.

This should fix arm32 memory alignment issue caused by shared rb_entry.

[struct victim_entry]              [struct rb_entry]
[0] struct rb_node rb_node;        [0] struct rb_node rb_node;
                                       union {
                                         struct {
                                           unsigned int ofs;
                                           unsigned int len;
                                         };
[16] unsigned long long mtime;     [12] unsigned long long key;
                                       } __packed;

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 093749e296e2 ("f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: convert discard_wake and gc_wake to bool type</title>
<updated>2023-01-11T19:15:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yangtao Li</name>
<email>frank.li@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T13:36:44+00:00</published>
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discard_wake and gc_wake have only two values, 0 or 1.
So there is no need to use int type to store them.

BTW, move discard_wake to the end of the
discard_cmd_control structure.

Before:

  - sizeof(struct discard_cmd_control): 8392

After move:

  - sizeof(struct discard_cmd_control): 8384

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li &lt;frank.li@vivo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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discard_wake and gc_wake have only two values, 0 or 1.
So there is no need to use int type to store them.

BTW, move discard_wake to the end of the
discard_cmd_control structure.

Before:

  - sizeof(struct discard_cmd_control): 8392

After move:

  - sizeof(struct discard_cmd_control): 8384

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li &lt;frank.li@vivo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: remove redundant code for gc condition</title>
<updated>2022-07-31T03:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>duguowei</name>
<email>duguowei@xiaomi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-20T13:39:45+00:00</published>
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Remove the redundant code and use local variant as the
argument directly. Make it more human-readable.

Signed-off-by: duguowei &lt;duguowei@xiaomi.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: make code neat]
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove the redundant code and use local variant as the
argument directly. Make it more human-readable.

Signed-off-by: duguowei &lt;duguowei@xiaomi.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: make code neat]
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>f2fs: introduce gc_merge mount option</title>
<updated>2021-03-31T01:48:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-27T09:57:06+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;xiang@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection</title>
<updated>2020-09-11T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T13:14:49+00:00</published>
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There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates based the
ratio, so that we can shrink candidates to those oldest segments;
- select target segment with fewest valid blocks in order to
migrate blocks with minimum cost;

2. select a target victim:
- select candidates beased age threshold;
- set candidate_radius threshold, search candidates whose age is
around source victims, searching radius should less than the
radius threshold.
- select target segment with most valid blocks in order to avoid
migrating current target segment.

3. merge valid blocks from source victim into target victim with
SSR alloctor.

Test steps:
- create 160 dirty segments:
 * half of them have 128 valid blocks per segment
 * left of them have 384 valid blocks per segment
- run background GC

Benefit: GC count and block movement count both decrease obviously:

- Before:
  - Valid: 86
  - Dirty: 1
  - Prefree: 11
  - Free: 6001 (6001)

GC calls: 162 (BG: 220)
  - data segments : 160 (160)
  - node segments : 2 (2)
Try to move 41454 blocks (BG: 41454)
  - data blocks : 40960 (40960)
  - node blocks : 494 (494)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 0 blocks in 0 segments
LFS: 41364 blocks in 81 segments

- After:

  - Valid: 87
  - Dirty: 0
  - Prefree: 4
  - Free: 6008 (6008)

GC calls: 75 (BG: 76)
  - data segments : 74 (74)
  - node segments : 1 (1)
Try to move 12813 blocks (BG: 12813)
  - data blocks : 12544 (12544)
  - node blocks : 269 (269)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 12032 blocks in 77 segments
LFS: 855 blocks in 2 segments

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug along with pinfile in-mem segment &amp; clean up]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates based the
ratio, so that we can shrink candidates to those oldest segments;
- select target segment with fewest valid blocks in order to
migrate blocks with minimum cost;

2. select a target victim:
- select candidates beased age threshold;
- set candidate_radius threshold, search candidates whose age is
around source victims, searching radius should less than the
radius threshold.
- select target segment with most valid blocks in order to avoid
migrating current target segment.

3. merge valid blocks from source victim into target victim with
SSR alloctor.

Test steps:
- create 160 dirty segments:
 * half of them have 128 valid blocks per segment
 * left of them have 384 valid blocks per segment
- run background GC

Benefit: GC count and block movement count both decrease obviously:

- Before:
  - Valid: 86
  - Dirty: 1
  - Prefree: 11
  - Free: 6001 (6001)

GC calls: 162 (BG: 220)
  - data segments : 160 (160)
  - node segments : 2 (2)
Try to move 41454 blocks (BG: 41454)
  - data blocks : 40960 (40960)
  - node blocks : 494 (494)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 0 blocks in 0 segments
LFS: 41364 blocks in 81 segments

- After:

  - Valid: 87
  - Dirty: 0
  - Prefree: 4
  - Free: 6008 (6008)

GC calls: 75 (BG: 76)
  - data segments : 74 (74)
  - node segments : 1 (1)
Try to move 12813 blocks (BG: 12813)
  - data blocks : 12544 (12544)
  - node blocks : 269 (269)

IPU: 0 blocks
SSR: 12032 blocks in 77 segments
LFS: 855 blocks in 2 segments

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
[Jaegeuk Kim: fix a bug along with pinfile in-mem segment &amp; clean up]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: support zone capacity less than zone size</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T21:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aravind Ramesh</name>
<email>aravind.ramesh@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-16T12:56:56+00:00</published>
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NVMe Zoned Namespace devices can have zone-capacity less than zone-size.
Zone-capacity indicates the maximum number of sectors that are usable in
a zone beginning from the first sector of the zone. This makes the sectors
sectors after the zone-capacity till zone-size to be unusable.
This patch set tracks zone-size and zone-capacity in zoned devices and
calculate the usable blocks per segment and usable segments per section.

If zone-capacity is less than zone-size mark only those segments which
start before zone-capacity as free segments. All segments at and beyond
zone-capacity are treated as permanently used segments. In cases where
zone-capacity does not align with segment size the last segment will start
before zone-capacity and end beyond the zone-capacity of the zone. For
such spanning segments only sectors within the zone-capacity are used.

During writes and GC manage the usable segments in a section and usable
blocks per segment. Segments which are beyond zone-capacity are never
allocated, and do not need to be garbage collected, only the segments
which are before zone-capacity needs to garbage collected.
For spanning segments based on the number of usable blocks in that
segment, write to blocks only up to zone-capacity.

Zone-capacity is device specific and cannot be configured by the user.
Since NVMe ZNS device zones are sequentially write only, a block device
with conventional zones or any normal block device is needed along with
the ZNS device for the metadata operations of F2fs.

A typical nvme-cli output of a zoned device shows zone start and capacity
and write pointer as below:

SLBA: 0x0     WP: 0x0     Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x20000 WP: 0x20000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x40000 WP: 0x40000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ

Here zone size is 64MB, capacity is 49MB, WP is at zone start as the zones
are in EMPTY state. For each zone, only zone start + 49MB is usable area,
any lba/sector after 49MB cannot be read or written to, the drive will fail
any attempts to read/write. So, the second zone starts at 64MB and is
usable till 113MB (64 + 49) and the range between 113 and 128MB is
again unusable. The next zone starts at 128MB, and so on.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Ramesh &lt;aravind.ramesh@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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NVMe Zoned Namespace devices can have zone-capacity less than zone-size.
Zone-capacity indicates the maximum number of sectors that are usable in
a zone beginning from the first sector of the zone. This makes the sectors
sectors after the zone-capacity till zone-size to be unusable.
This patch set tracks zone-size and zone-capacity in zoned devices and
calculate the usable blocks per segment and usable segments per section.

If zone-capacity is less than zone-size mark only those segments which
start before zone-capacity as free segments. All segments at and beyond
zone-capacity are treated as permanently used segments. In cases where
zone-capacity does not align with segment size the last segment will start
before zone-capacity and end beyond the zone-capacity of the zone. For
such spanning segments only sectors within the zone-capacity are used.

During writes and GC manage the usable segments in a section and usable
blocks per segment. Segments which are beyond zone-capacity are never
allocated, and do not need to be garbage collected, only the segments
which are before zone-capacity needs to garbage collected.
For spanning segments based on the number of usable blocks in that
segment, write to blocks only up to zone-capacity.

Zone-capacity is device specific and cannot be configured by the user.
Since NVMe ZNS device zones are sequentially write only, a block device
with conventional zones or any normal block device is needed along with
the ZNS device for the metadata operations of F2fs.

A typical nvme-cli output of a zoned device shows zone start and capacity
and write pointer as below:

SLBA: 0x0     WP: 0x0     Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x20000 WP: 0x20000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ
SLBA: 0x40000 WP: 0x40000 Cap: 0x18800 State: EMPTY Type: SEQWRITE_REQ

Here zone size is 64MB, capacity is 49MB, WP is at zone start as the zones
are in EMPTY state. For each zone, only zone start + 49MB is usable area,
any lba/sector after 49MB cannot be read or written to, the drive will fail
any attempts to read/write. So, the second zone starts at 64MB and is
usable till 113MB (64 + 49) and the range between 113 and 128MB is
again unusable. The next zone starts at 128MB, and so on.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Ramesh &lt;aravind.ramesh@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>f2fs: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier</title>
<updated>2020-05-08T13:55:55+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nishad Kamdar</name>
<email>nishadkamdar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-25T13:19:08+00:00</published>
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This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style in
header files related to F2FS File System support.
For C header files Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
mandates C-like comments (opposed to C source files where
C++ style should be used).

Changes made by using a script provided by Joe Perches here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/7/46.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar &lt;nishadkamdar@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style in
header files related to F2FS File System support.
For C header files Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
mandates C-like comments (opposed to C source files where
C++ style should be used).

Changes made by using a script provided by Joe Perches here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/7/46.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar &lt;nishadkamdar@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>f2fs: add SPDX license identifiers</title>
<updated>2018-09-12T20:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chao Yu</name>
<email>yuchao0@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-12T01:16:07+00:00</published>
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Remove the verbose license text from f2fs files and replace them with
SPDX tags.  This does not change the license of any of the code.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove the verbose license text from f2fs files and replace them with
SPDX tags.  This does not change the license of any of the code.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu &lt;yuchao0@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>f2fs: introduce sbi-&gt;gc_mode to determine the policy</title>
<updated>2018-05-31T18:31:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaegeuk Kim</name>
<email>jaegeuk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T21:22:40+00:00</published>
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This is to avoid sbi-&gt;gc_thread pointer access.

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This is to avoid sbi-&gt;gc_thread pointer access.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
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