For casefolded directories, f2fs may fall back to a linear search if
a hash-based lookup fails. This can cause severe performance
regressions.
While this behavior can be controlled by userspace tools (e.g. mkfs,
fsck) by setting an on-disk flag, a kernel-level solution is needed
to guarantee the lookup behavior regardless of the on-disk state.
This commit introduces the 'lookup_mode' mount option to provide this
kernel-side control.
The option accepts three values:
- perf: (Default) Enforces a hash-only lookup. The linear fallback
is always disabled.
- compat: Enables the linear search fallback for compatibility with
directory entries from older kernels.
- auto: Determines the mode based on the on-disk flag, preserving the
userspace-based behavior.
Bug: 432807936
(cherry picked from commit 632f0b6c3e32758e5c93d4e3c2860a3708b9853e
https: //git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs.git dev)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20250805065228.1473089-1-chullee@google.com/
Change-Id: I51c4cb6eb40c8753c48f6e5de76e2edf24d20422
[chullee: adapted the mount option parsing to an older API]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lee <chullee@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Daniel Lee
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