1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/find.c b/fs/ubifs/find.c
index 10394c548367..47814cde2407 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/find.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/find.c
@@ -211,14 +211,8 @@ static const struct ubifs_lprops *scan_for_dirty(struct ubifs_info *c,
  * dirty index heap, and it falls-back to LPT scanning if the heaps are empty
  * or do not have an LEB which satisfies the @min_space criteria.
  *
- * Note:
- *   o LEBs which have less than dead watermark of dirty space are never picked
- *   by this function;
- *
- * Returns zero and the LEB properties of
- * found dirty LEB in case of success, %-ENOSPC if no dirty LEB was found and a
- * negative error code in case of other failures. The returned LEB is marked as
- * "taken".
+ * Note, LEBs which have less than dead watermark of free + dirty space are
+ * never picked by this function.
  *
  * The additional @pick_free argument controls if this function has to return a
  * free or freeable LEB if one is present. For example, GC must to set it to %1,
@@ -231,6 +225,10 @@ static const struct ubifs_lprops *scan_for_dirty(struct ubifs_info *c,
  *
  * In addition @pick_free is set to %2 by the recovery process in order to
  * recover gc_lnum in which case an index LEB must not be returned.
+ *
+ * This function returns zero and the LEB properties of found dirty LEB in case
+ * of success, %-ENOSPC if no dirty LEB was found and a negative error code in
+ * case of other failures. The returned LEB is marked as "taken".
  */
 int ubifs_find_dirty_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *ret_lp,
                          int min_space, int pick_free)
@@ -245,7 +243,7 @@ int ubifs_find_dirty_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *ret_lp,
                 int lebs, rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
 
                 spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
-                lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs;
+                lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->idx_gc_cnt;
                 lebs += c->freeable_cnt - c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
 
                 /*
@@ -290,9 +288,14 @@ int ubifs_find_dirty_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *ret_lp,
                 idx_lp = idx_heap->arr[0];
                 sum = idx_lp->free + idx_lp->dirty;
                 /*
-                 * Since we reserve twice as more space for the index than it
+                 * Since we reserve thrice as much space for the index than it
                  * actually takes, it does not make sense to pick indexing LEBs
-                 * with less than half LEB of dirty space.
+                 * with less than, say, half LEB of dirty space. May be half is
+                 * not the optimal boundary - this should be tested and
+                 * checked. This boundary should determine how much we use
+                 * in-the-gaps to consolidate the index comparing to how much
+                 * we use garbage collector to consolidate it. The "half"
+                 * criteria just feels to be fine.
                  */
                 if (sum < min_space || sum < c->half_leb_size)
                         idx_lp = NULL;
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ int ubifs_find_dirty_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *ret_lp,
                 lp = idx_lp;
 
         if (lp) {
-                ubifs_assert(lp->dirty >= c->dead_wm);
+                ubifs_assert(lp->free + lp->dirty >= c->dead_wm);
                 goto found;
         }
 
@@ -504,7 +507,6 @@ int ubifs_find_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c, int min_space, int *free,
                 rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
         lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
                c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
-        ubifs_assert(lebs + c->lst.idx_lebs >= c->min_idx_lebs);
         if (rsvd_idx_lebs < lebs)
                 /*
                  * OK to allocate an empty LEB, but we still don't want to go