On 02/04, Chao Yu wrote:
> There is potential hangtask happened during swapfile's writeback:
> 
> - loop_kthread_worker_fn              - do_checkpoint
>   - kthread_worker_fn
>    - loop_queue_work
>     - lo_rw_aio
>      - f2fs_file_write_iter
>       - f2fs_preallocate_blocks
>        - f2fs_map_blocks
>                                        - down_write
>         - down_read
>          - rwsem_down_read_slowpath
>           - schedule
> 
> One cause is f2fs_preallocate_blocks() will always be called no matter
> the physical block addresses are allocated or not.
> 
> This patch tries to check whether block addresses are all allocated with
> i_size and i_blocks of inode, it's rough because blocks can be allocated
> beyond i_size, however, we can afford skipping block preallocation in this
> condition since it's not necessary to do preallocation all the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
> - check overwrite case with i_size and i_blocks roughly.
>  fs/f2fs/file.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> index cfdc41f87f5d..09565d10611d 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
> @@ -4390,6 +4390,16 @@ static int f2fs_preallocate_blocks(struct kiocb *iocb, 
> struct iov_iter *iter,
>       int flag;
>       int ret;
>  
> +     /*
> +      * It tries to check whether block addresses are all allocated,
> +      * it's rough because blocks can be allocated beyond i_size,
> +      * however, we can afford skipping block preallocation since
> +      * it's not necessary all the time.
> +      */
> +     if (F2FS_BLK_ALIGN(i_size_read(inode)) ==
> +                     SECTOR_TO_BLOCK(inode->i_blocks))

Do we count i_blocks only for data?

> +             return 0;
> +
>       /* If it will be an out-of-place direct write, don't bother. */
>       if (dio && f2fs_lfs_mode(sbi))
>               return 0;
> -- 
> 2.32.0


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