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DEFINITIONS
This source file includes following definitions.
- switch_gc_head
- move_nodes
- gc_sync_wbufs
- ubifs_garbage_collect_leb
- ubifs_garbage_collect
- ubifs_gc_start_commit
- ubifs_gc_end_commit
- ubifs_destroy_idx_gc
- ubifs_get_idx_gc_leb
/*
* This file is part of UBIFS.
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
* the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
* more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
* this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51
* Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* Authors: Adrian Hunter
* Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
*/
/*
* This file implements garbage collection. The procedure for garbage collection
* is different depending on whether a LEB as an index LEB (contains index
* nodes) or not. For non-index LEBs, garbage collection finds a LEB which
* contains a lot of dirty space (obsolete nodes), and copies the non-obsolete
* nodes to the journal, at which point the garbage-collected LEB is free to be
* reused. For index LEBs, garbage collection marks the non-obsolete index nodes
* dirty in the TNC, and after the next commit, the garbage-collected LEB is
* to be reused. Garbage collection will cause the number of dirty index nodes
* to grow, however sufficient space is reserved for the index to ensure the
* commit will never run out of space.
*/
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include "ubifs.h"
/*
* GC tries to optimize the way it fit nodes to available space, and it sorts
* nodes a little. The below constants are watermarks which define "large",
* "medium", and "small" nodes.
*/
#define MEDIUM_NODE_WM (UBIFS_BLOCK_SIZE / 4)
#define SMALL_NODE_WM UBIFS_MAX_DENT_NODE_SZ
/*
* GC may need to move more then one LEB to make progress. The below constants
* define "soft" and "hard" limits on the number of LEBs the garbage collector
* may move.
*/
#define SOFT_LEBS_LIMIT 4
#define HARD_LEBS_LIMIT 32
/**
* switch_gc_head - switch the garbage collection journal head.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
* @buf: buffer to write
* @len: length of the buffer to write
* @lnum: LEB number written is returned here
* @offs: offset written is returned here
*
* This function switch the GC head to the next LEB which is reserved in
* @c->gc_lnum. Returns %0 in case of success, %-EAGAIN if commit is required,
* and other negative error code in case of failures.
*/
static int switch_gc_head(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
int err, gc_lnum = c->gc_lnum;
struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf = &c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf;
ubifs_assert(gc_lnum != -1);
dbg_gc("switch GC head from LEB %d:%d to LEB %d (waste %d bytes)",
wbuf->lnum, wbuf->offs + wbuf->used, gc_lnum,
c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used);
err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
if (err)
return err;
/*
* The GC write-buffer was synchronized, we may safely unmap
* 'c->gc_lnum'.
*/
err = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, gc_lnum);
if (err)
return err;
err = ubifs_add_bud_to_log(c, GCHD, gc_lnum, 0);
if (err)
return err;
c->gc_lnum = -1;
err = ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock(wbuf, gc_lnum, 0, UBI_LONGTERM);
return err;
}
/**
* move_nodes - move nodes.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
* @sleb: describes nodes to move
*
* This function moves valid nodes from data LEB described by @sleb to the GC
* journal head. The obsolete nodes are dropped.
*
* When moving nodes we have to deal with classical bin-packing problem: the
* space in the current GC journal head LEB and in @c->gc_lnum are the "bins",
* where the nodes in the @sleb->nodes list are the elements which should be
* fit optimally to the bins. This function uses the "first fit decreasing"
* strategy, although it does not really sort the nodes but just split them on
* 3 classes - large, medium, and small, so they are roughly sorted.
*
* This function returns zero in case of success, %-EAGAIN if commit is
* required, and other negative error codes in case of other failures.
*/
static int move_nodes(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb)
{
struct ubifs_scan_node *snod, *tmp;
struct list_head large, medium, small;
struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf = &c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf;
int avail, err, min = INT_MAX;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&large);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&medium);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&small);
list_for_each_entry_safe(snod, tmp, &sleb->nodes, list) {
struct list_head *lst;
ubifs_assert(snod->type != UBIFS_IDX_NODE);
ubifs_assert(snod->type != UBIFS_REF_NODE);
ubifs_assert(snod->type != UBIFS_CS_NODE);
err = ubifs_tnc_has_node(c, &snod->key, 0, sleb->lnum,
snod->offs, 0);
if (err < 0)
goto out;
lst = &snod->list;
list_del(lst);
if (!err) {
/* The node is obsolete, remove it from the list */
kfree(snod);
continue;
}
/*
* Sort the list of nodes so that large nodes go first, and
* small nodes go last.
*/
if (snod->len > MEDIUM_NODE_WM)
list_add(lst, &large);
else if (snod->len > SMALL_NODE_WM)
list_add(lst, &medium);
else
list_add(lst, &small);
/* And find the smallest node */
if (snod->len < min)
min = snod->len;
}
/*
* Join the tree lists so that we'd have one roughly sorted list
* ('large' will be the head of the joined list).
*/
list_splice(&medium, large.prev);
list_splice(&small, large.prev);
if (wbuf->lnum == -1) {
/*
* The GC journal head is not set, because it is the first GC
* invocation since mount.
*/
err = switch_gc_head(c);
if (err)
goto out;
}
/* Write nodes to their new location. Use the first-fit strategy */
while (1) {
avail = c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used;
list_for_each_entry_safe(snod, tmp, &large, list) {
int new_lnum, new_offs;
if (avail < min)
break;
if (snod->len > avail)
/* This node does not fit */
continue;
cond_resched();
new_lnum = wbuf->lnum;
new_offs = wbuf->offs + wbuf->used;
err = ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock(wbuf, snod->node,
snod->len);
if (err)
goto out;
err = ubifs_tnc_replace(c, &snod->key, sleb->lnum,
snod->offs, new_lnum, new_offs,
snod->len);
if (err)
goto out;
avail = c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used;
list_del(&snod->list);
kfree(snod);
}
if (list_empty(&large))
break;
/*
* Waste the rest of the space in the LEB and switch to the
* next LEB.
*/
err = switch_gc_head(c);
if (err)
goto out;
}
return 0;
out:
list_for_each_entry_safe(snod, tmp, &large, list) {
list_del(&snod->list);
kfree(snod);
}
return err;
}
/**
* gc_sync_wbufs - sync write-buffers for GC.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* We must guarantee that obsoleting nodes are on flash. Unfortunately they may
* be in a write-buffer instead. That is, a node could be written to a
* write-buffer, obsoleting another node in a LEB that is GC'd. If that LEB is
* erased before the write-buffer is sync'd and then there is an unclean
* unmount, then an existing node is lost. To avoid this, we sync all
* write-buffers.
*
* This function returns %0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
*/
static int gc_sync_wbufs(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
int err, i;
for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++) {
if (i == GCHD)
continue;
err = ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
if (err)
return err;
}
return 0;
}
/**
* ubifs_garbage_collect_leb - garbage-collect a logical eraseblock.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
* @lp: describes the LEB to garbage collect
*
* This function garbage-collects an LEB and returns one of the @LEB_FREED,
* @LEB_RETAINED, etc positive codes in case of success, %-EAGAIN if commit is
* required, and other negative error codes in case of failures.
*/
int ubifs_garbage_collect_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *lp)
{
struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb;
struct ubifs_scan_node *snod;
struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf = &c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf;
int err = 0, lnum = lp->lnum;
ubifs_assert(c->gc_lnum != -1 || wbuf->offs + wbuf->used == 0 ||
c->need_recovery);
ubifs_assert(c->gc_lnum != lnum);
ubifs_assert(wbuf->lnum != lnum);
/*
* We scan the entire LEB even though we only really need to scan up to
* (c->leb_size - lp->free).
*/
sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, c->sbuf);
if (IS_ERR(sleb))
return PTR_ERR(sleb);
ubifs_assert(!list_empty(&sleb->nodes));
snod = list_entry(sleb->nodes.next, struct ubifs_scan_node, list);
if (snod->type == UBIFS_IDX_NODE) {
struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb *idx_gc;
dbg_gc("indexing LEB %d (free %d, dirty %d)",
lnum, lp->free, lp->dirty);
list_for_each_entry(snod, &sleb->nodes, list) {
struct ubifs_idx_node *idx = snod->node;
int level = le16_to_cpu(idx->level);
ubifs_assert(snod->type == UBIFS_IDX_NODE);
key_read(c, ubifs_idx_key(c, idx), &snod->key);
err = ubifs_dirty_idx_node(c, &snod->key, level, lnum,
snod->offs);
if (err)
goto out;
}
idx_gc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb), GFP_NOFS);
if (!idx_gc) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
idx_gc->lnum = lnum;
idx_gc->unmap = 0;
list_add(&idx_gc->list, &c->idx_gc);
/*
* Don't release the LEB until after the next commit, because
* it may contain date which is needed for recovery. So
* although we freed this LEB, it will become usable only after
* the commit.
*/
err = ubifs_change_one_lp(c, lnum, c->leb_size, 0, 0,
LPROPS_INDEX, 1);
if (err)
goto out;
err = LEB_FREED_IDX;
} else {
dbg_gc("data LEB %d (free %d, dirty %d)",
lnum, lp->free, lp->dirty);
err = move_nodes(c, sleb);
if (err)
goto out_inc_seq;
err = gc_sync_wbufs(c);
if (err)
goto out_inc_seq;
err = ubifs_change_one_lp(c, lnum, c->leb_size, 0, 0, 0, 0);
if (err)
goto out_inc_seq;
/* Allow for races with TNC */
c->gced_lnum = lnum;
smp_wmb();
c->gc_seq += 1;
smp_wmb();
if (c->gc_lnum == -1) {
c->gc_lnum = lnum;
err = LEB_RETAINED;
} else {
err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
if (err)
goto out;
err = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, lnum);
if (err)
goto out;
err = LEB_FREED;
}
}
out:
ubifs_scan_destroy(sleb);
return err;
out_inc_seq:
/* We may have moved at least some nodes so allow for races with TNC */
c->gced_lnum = lnum;
smp_wmb();
c->gc_seq += 1;
smp_wmb();
goto out;
}
/**
* ubifs_garbage_collect - UBIFS garbage collector.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
* @anyway: do GC even if there are free LEBs
*
* This function does out-of-place garbage collection. The return codes are:
* o positive LEB number if the LEB has been freed and may be used;
* o %-EAGAIN if the caller has to run commit;
* o %-ENOSPC if GC failed to make any progress;
* o other negative error codes in case of other errors.
*
* Garbage collector writes data to the journal when GC'ing data LEBs, and just
* marking indexing nodes dirty when GC'ing indexing LEBs. Thus, at some point
* commit may be required. But commit cannot be run from inside GC, because the
* caller might be holding the commit lock, so %-EAGAIN is returned instead;
* And this error code means that the caller has to run commit, and re-run GC
* if there is still no free space.
*
* There are many reasons why this function may return %-EAGAIN:
* o the log is full and there is no space to write an LEB reference for
* @c->gc_lnum;
* o the journal is too large and exceeds size limitations;
* o GC moved indexing LEBs, but they can be used only after the commit;
* o the shrinker fails to find clean znodes to free and requests the commit;
* o etc.
*
* Note, if the file-system is close to be full, this function may return
* %-EAGAIN infinitely, so the caller has to limit amount of re-invocations of
* the function. E.g., this happens if the limits on the journal size are too
* tough and GC writes too much to the journal before an LEB is freed. This
* might also mean that the journal is too large, and the TNC becomes to big,
* so that the shrinker is constantly called, finds not clean znodes to free,
* and requests commit. Well, this may also happen if the journal is all right,
* but another kernel process consumes too much memory. Anyway, infinite
* %-EAGAIN may happen, but in some extreme/misconfiguration cases.
*/
int ubifs_garbage_collect(struct ubifs_info *c, int anyway)
{
int i, err, ret, min_space = c->dead_wm;
struct ubifs_lprops lp;
struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf = &c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf;
ubifs_assert_cmt_locked(c);
if (ubifs_gc_should_commit(c))
return -EAGAIN;
mutex_lock_nested(&wbuf->io_mutex, wbuf->jhead);
if (c->ro_media) {
ret = -EROFS;
goto out_unlock;
}
/* We expect the write-buffer to be empty on entry */
ubifs_assert(!wbuf->used);
for (i = 0; ; i++) {
int space_before = c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used;
int space_after;
cond_resched();
/* Give the commit an opportunity to run */
if (ubifs_gc_should_commit(c)) {
ret = -EAGAIN;
break;
}
if (i > SOFT_LEBS_LIMIT && !list_empty(&c->idx_gc)) {
/*
* We've done enough iterations. Indexing LEBs were
* moved and will be available after the commit.
*/
dbg_gc("soft limit, some index LEBs GC'ed, -EAGAIN");
ubifs_commit_required(c);
ret = -EAGAIN;
break;
}
if (i > HARD_LEBS_LIMIT) {
/*
* We've moved too many LEBs and have not made
* progress, give up.
*/
dbg_gc("hard limit, -ENOSPC");
ret = -ENOSPC;
break;
}
/*
* Empty and freeable LEBs can turn up while we waited for
* the wbuf lock, or while we have been running GC. In that
* case, we should just return one of those instead of
* continuing to GC dirty LEBs. Hence we request
* 'ubifs_find_dirty_leb()' to return an empty LEB if it can.
*/
ret = ubifs_find_dirty_leb(c, &lp, min_space, anyway ? 0 : 1);
if (ret) {
if (ret == -ENOSPC)
dbg_gc("no more dirty LEBs");
break;
}
dbg_gc("found LEB %d: free %d, dirty %d, sum %d "
"(min. space %d)", lp.lnum, lp.free, lp.dirty,
lp.free + lp.dirty, min_space);
if (lp.free + lp.dirty == c->leb_size) {
/* An empty LEB was returned */
dbg_gc("LEB %d is free, return it", lp.lnum);
/*
* ubifs_find_dirty_leb() doesn't return freeable index
* LEBs.
*/
ubifs_assert(!(lp.flags & LPROPS_INDEX));
if (lp.free != c->leb_size) {
/*
* Write buffers must be sync'd before
* unmapping freeable LEBs, because one of them
* may contain data which obsoletes something
* in 'lp.pnum'.
*/
ret = gc_sync_wbufs(c);
if (ret)
goto out;
ret = ubifs_change_one_lp(c, lp.lnum,
c->leb_size, 0, 0, 0,
0);
if (ret)
goto out;
}
ret = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, lp.lnum);
if (ret)
goto out;
ret = lp.lnum;
break;
}
space_before = c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used;
if (wbuf->lnum == -1)
space_before = 0;
ret = ubifs_garbage_collect_leb(c, &lp);
if (ret < 0) {
if (ret == -EAGAIN || ret == -ENOSPC) {
/*
* These codes are not errors, so we have to
* return the LEB to lprops. But if the
* 'ubifs_return_leb()' function fails, its
* failure code is propagated to the caller
* instead of the original '-EAGAIN' or
* '-ENOSPC'.
*/
err = ubifs_return_leb(c, lp.lnum);
if (err)
ret = err;
break;
}
goto out;
}
if (ret == LEB_FREED) {
/* An LEB has been freed and is ready for use */
dbg_gc("LEB %d freed, return", lp.lnum);
ret = lp.lnum;
break;
}
if (ret == LEB_FREED_IDX) {
/*
* This was an indexing LEB and it cannot be
* immediately used. And instead of requesting the
* commit straight away, we try to garbage collect some
* more.
*/
dbg_gc("indexing LEB %d freed, continue", lp.lnum);
continue;
}
ubifs_assert(ret == LEB_RETAINED);
space_after = c->leb_size - wbuf->offs - wbuf->used;
dbg_gc("LEB %d retained, freed %d bytes", lp.lnum,
space_after - space_before);
if (space_after > space_before) {
/* GC makes progress, keep working */
min_space >>= 1;
if (min_space < c->dead_wm)
min_space = c->dead_wm;
continue;
}
dbg_gc("did not make progress");
/*
* GC moved an LEB bud have not done any progress. This means
* that the previous GC head LEB contained too few free space
* and the LEB which was GC'ed contained only large nodes which
* did not fit that space.
*
* We can do 2 things:
* 1. pick another LEB in a hope it'll contain a small node
* which will fit the space we have at the end of current GC
* head LEB, but there is no guarantee, so we try this out
* unless we have already been working for too long;
* 2. request an LEB with more dirty space, which will force
* 'ubifs_find_dirty_leb()' to start scanning the lprops
* table, instead of just picking one from the heap
* (previously it already picked the dirtiest LEB).
*/
if (i < SOFT_LEBS_LIMIT) {
dbg_gc("try again");
continue;
}
min_space <<= 1;
if (min_space > c->dark_wm)
min_space = c->dark_wm;
dbg_gc("set min. space to %d", min_space);
}
if (ret == -ENOSPC && !list_empty(&c->idx_gc)) {
dbg_gc("no space, some index LEBs GC'ed, -EAGAIN");
ubifs_commit_required(c);
ret = -EAGAIN;
}
err = ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
if (!err)
err = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, c->gc_lnum);
if (err) {
ret = err;
goto out;
}
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&wbuf->io_mutex);
return ret;
out:
ubifs_assert(ret < 0);
ubifs_assert(ret != -ENOSPC && ret != -EAGAIN);
ubifs_ro_mode(c, ret);
ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(wbuf);
mutex_unlock(&wbuf->io_mutex);
ubifs_return_leb(c, lp.lnum);
return ret;
}
/**
* ubifs_gc_start_commit - garbage collection at start of commit.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* If a LEB has only dirty and free space, then we may safely unmap it and make
* it free. Note, we cannot do this with indexing LEBs because dirty space may
* correspond index nodes that are required for recovery. In that case, the
* LEB cannot be unmapped until after the next commit.
*
* This function returns %0 upon success and a negative error code upon failure.
*/
int ubifs_gc_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb *idx_gc;
const struct ubifs_lprops *lp;
int err = 0, flags;
ubifs_get_lprops(c);
/*
* Unmap (non-index) freeable LEBs. Note that recovery requires that all
* wbufs are sync'd before this, which is done in 'do_commit()'.
*/
while (1) {
lp = ubifs_fast_find_freeable(c);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(lp))) {
err = PTR_ERR(lp);
goto out;
}
if (!lp)
break;
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_TAKEN));
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_INDEX));
err = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, lp->lnum);
if (err)
goto out;
lp = ubifs_change_lp(c, lp, c->leb_size, 0, lp->flags, 0);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(lp))) {
err = PTR_ERR(lp);
goto out;
}
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_TAKEN));
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_INDEX));
}
/* Mark GC'd index LEBs OK to unmap after this commit finishes */
list_for_each_entry(idx_gc, &c->idx_gc, list)
idx_gc->unmap = 1;
/* Record index freeable LEBs for unmapping after commit */
while (1) {
lp = ubifs_fast_find_frdi_idx(c);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(lp))) {
err = PTR_ERR(lp);
goto out;
}
if (!lp)
break;
idx_gc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb), GFP_NOFS);
if (!idx_gc) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_TAKEN));
ubifs_assert(lp->flags & LPROPS_INDEX);
/* Don't release the LEB until after the next commit */
flags = (lp->flags | LPROPS_TAKEN) ^ LPROPS_INDEX;
lp = ubifs_change_lp(c, lp, c->leb_size, 0, flags, 1);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(lp))) {
err = PTR_ERR(lp);
kfree(idx_gc);
goto out;
}
ubifs_assert(lp->flags & LPROPS_TAKEN);
ubifs_assert(!(lp->flags & LPROPS_INDEX));
idx_gc->lnum = lp->lnum;
idx_gc->unmap = 1;
list_add(&idx_gc->list, &c->idx_gc);
}
out:
ubifs_release_lprops(c);
return err;
}
/**
* ubifs_gc_end_commit - garbage collection at end of commit.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* This function completes out-of-place garbage collection of index LEBs.
*/
int ubifs_gc_end_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb *idx_gc, *tmp;
struct ubifs_wbuf *wbuf;
int err = 0;
wbuf = &c->jheads[GCHD].wbuf;
mutex_lock_nested(&wbuf->io_mutex, wbuf->jhead);
list_for_each_entry_safe(idx_gc, tmp, &c->idx_gc, list)
if (idx_gc->unmap) {
dbg_gc("LEB %d", idx_gc->lnum);
err = ubifs_leb_unmap(c, idx_gc->lnum);
if (err)
goto out;
err = ubifs_change_one_lp(c, idx_gc->lnum, LPROPS_NC,
LPROPS_NC, 0, LPROPS_TAKEN, -1);
if (err)
goto out;
list_del(&idx_gc->list);
kfree(idx_gc);
}
out:
mutex_unlock(&wbuf->io_mutex);
return err;
}
/**
* ubifs_destroy_idx_gc - destroy idx_gc list.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* This function destroys the idx_gc list. It is called when unmounting or
* remounting read-only so locks are not needed.
*/
void ubifs_destroy_idx_gc(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
while (!list_empty(&c->idx_gc)) {
struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb *idx_gc;
idx_gc = list_entry(c->idx_gc.next, struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb,
list);
c->idx_gc_cnt -= 1;
list_del(&idx_gc->list);
kfree(idx_gc);
}
}
/**
* ubifs_get_idx_gc_leb - get a LEB from GC'd index LEB list.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* Called during start commit so locks are not needed.
*/
int ubifs_get_idx_gc_leb(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb *idx_gc;
int lnum;
if (list_empty(&c->idx_gc))
return -ENOSPC;
idx_gc = list_entry(c->idx_gc.next, struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb, list);
lnum = idx_gc->lnum;
/* c->idx_gc_cnt is updated by the caller when lprops are updated */
list_del(&idx_gc->list);
kfree(idx_gc);
return lnum;
}