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Commit 6f8d4455 authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: avoid fi->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE] lock in f2fs_gc


The f2fs_gc() called by f2fs_balance_fs() requires to be called outside of
fi->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE], since f2fs_gc() can try to grab it in a loop.

If it hits the miximum retrials in GC, let's give a chance to release
gc_mutex for a short time in order not to go into live lock in the worst
case.

Reviewed-by: default avatarChao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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