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Brijesh Singh
158132c9ab UBI: improve delete-compatible volumes handling
When a delete-compatible volume is found, it is first added to the
'corr' list, which contains "corrupted" PEBs which should be erased,
and then it is added to the used volumes tree. However, the second
step should not be done. This does not cause problems in practice,
because we never access delete-compattible volumes, but it is still
not the right thing to do.

[Artem: amended the commit message and few prints]

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-06-16 09:39:49 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f5d5b1f8c1 UBI: fix error message and compilation warnings
Fix the followong compilation warnings introduced by commit
095751a6e0:

drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: In function 'check_what_we_have':
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:960: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_random_bytes' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Fix the following compilation warnings introduced by commit
1a49af2ca0:

drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c: In function 'ubi_io_read':
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:153: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:170: warning: format '%s' expects type 'char *', but argument 5 has type 'int'
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:177: warning: format '%zd' expects type 'signed size_t', but argument 7 has type 'int'
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:177: warning: too many arguments for format

Also, amend the ECC error code string and add brackets and whitespace
there - this should make the message readable.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-06-14 08:47:49 +03:00
Matthieu CASTET
095751a6e0 UBI: generate random image_seq when formatting MTD devices
Generate random image_seq when attaching empty MTD device (kernel do the
ubi formating).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-06-11 17:23:37 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
1a49af2ca0 UBI: improve ECC error message
ECC errors are quite typical errors on NAND, so it is worth improving
the UBI message and print something like

ubi_io_read: error -74 (ECC error) while reading 4096 bytes from PEB 1:4 ...

rather than

ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 4096 bytes from PEB 1:4 ...

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-06-11 17:23:37 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
0798cea8c2 UBI: improve corrupted flash handling
This patch improves the way UBI handles corrupted flash, or flash
containing garbage or non-UBI data, which is the same from UBI POW.
Namely, we do the following:

* if 5% or more PEBs are corrupted, refuse the flash
* if less than 5% PEBs are corrupted, do not refuse the flash
  and format these PEBs
* if less than 8 PEBs are corrupted, format them silently, otherwise
  print a warning message.

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
2010-06-04 11:30:44 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
33789fb9d4 UBI: introduce eraseblock counter variables
This is just a preparation patch which introduces several
'struct ubi_scan_info' fields which count eraseblocks of different
types. This will be used later on to decide whether it is safe to
format the flash or not. No functional changes so far.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
2010-06-04 11:30:43 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
eb89580e1a UBI: introduce a new IO return code
This patch introduces the %UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_READ return code for
the I/O level function. We will use this code in order to distinguish
between "corrupted header possibly because this is non-ubi data" and
"corrupted header possibly because of real data corruption and ECC error".

So far this patch does not introduce any functional change, just a
preparation.

This patch is pased on a patch from
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
2010-06-04 11:30:42 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
786d783185 UBI: simplify IO error codes
We do not really need 2 separate error codes for indicating bad VID
and bad EC headers (UBI_IO_BAD_EC_HDR, UBI_IO_BAD_VID_HDR), it is
enough to have only one UBI_IO_BAD_HDR return code.

This patch does not introduce any functional change, only some
code simplification.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
2010-06-04 11:30:42 +03:00
Christoph Hellwig
7ea8085910 drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:05:02 -04:00
Shinya Kuribayashi
be436f6238 UBI: misc comment fixes
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-07 08:33:32 +03:00
Shinya Kuribayashi
3f5026222e UBI: fix s/then/than/ typos
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-07 08:33:10 +03:00
Marc Kleine-Budde
af7ad7a0a6 UBI: init even if MTD device cannot be attached, if built into kernel
UBI can be built into the kernel or be compiled as a kernel module.
Further on the command line one can specify MTD devices to be attach to
UBI while loading. In the current implementation the UBI driver refuses
to load if one of the MTD devices cannot be attached.

Consider:
1) UBI compiled into the kernel and
2) a MTD device specified on the command line and
3) this MTD device contains bogus data (for whatever reason).

During init UBI tries to attach the MTD device is this fails the whole
UBI subsystem isn't initialized. Later the userspace cannot attach any
MTD to UBI because UBI isn't loaded.

This patch keeps the current behaviour: if UBI is compiled as a module
and a MTD device cannot be attached the UBI module cannot be loaded,
but changes it for the UBI-is-built-into-the-kernel usecase.

If UBI is builtin, a not attachable MTD device doen't stop UBI from
initializing. This slightly modifies the behaviour if multiple MTD
devices are specified on the command line. Now every MTD device is
probed and, if possible, attached, i.e. a faulty MTD device doesn't
stop the others from being attached.

Artem: tweaked the patch

Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-06 09:12:11 +03:00
Kevin Cernekee
70d38b9625 UBI: remove reboot notifier
The UBI reboot notifier causes problems with hibernation.  Move this
functionality into the low-level MTD driver instead.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-03 09:08:13 +03:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Andi Kleen
28812fe11a driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:48 -08:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6e9065d756 UBI: add write checking
Add an extra debugging check function which validates writes.
After every write it reads the data back, compares it with the
original data, and complains if they mismatch.

Useful for debugging. No-op if extra debugging checks are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01 15:16:37 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
adbf05e3ec UBI: simplify debugging return codes
UBI debugging functions were a little bit over-engineered and
returned more error codes than needed, and the callers had to
do useless checks. Simplify the return codes.

Impact: only debugging code is affected, which means that for
        non-developers this is a no-op patch.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01 15:16:37 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
0bf1c4399a UBI: fix attaching error path
In the error path of 'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()' we have a tricky situation:
we have to release things differently depending on at which point
the failure happening. Namely, if @ubi->dev is not initialized, we have
to free everything ourselves. But if it was, we should not free the @ubi
object, because it will be freed in the 'dev_release()' function. And
we did not get this situation right.

This patch introduces additional argument to the 'uif_init()' function.
On exit, this argument indicates whether the final 'free(ubi)' will
happen in 'dev_release()' or not. So the caller always knows how to
properly release the resources.

Impact: all memory is now correctly released when UBI fails to attach
        an MTD device.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01 15:16:36 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f9b0080e10 UBI: support attaching by MTD character device name
This patch adds a capability to attach MTD devices by their character
device paths. For example, one can do:

$ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd0

to attach /dev/mtd0.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01 15:16:36 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9e0c7ef3f6 UBI: mark few variables as __initdata
The @mtd_devs and @mtd_dev_param variables are used only during the
initialization, and all functions that use the variables have
the __init prefix. This means we can safely mark the variables
as __initdata, which is a tiny optimization.

Impact: tiny RAM consumption optimization when UBI is used as a kernel
        module.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01 15:16:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
551e28dbe8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6:
  UBI: fix volume creation input checking
2010-01-28 12:57:50 -08:00
Mika Westerberg
c5ce5b46af UBI: fix volume creation input checking
Do not use an unchecked variable UBI_IOCMKVOL ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2010-01-27 11:55:43 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ebddd63b74 UBI: fix memory leak in update path
When truncating an UBI volume, UBI should allocates a PEB-sized
buffer but does not release it, which leads to memory leaks.
This patch fixes the issue.

Reported-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-18 18:53:56 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b531b55a7b UBI: add more checks to chdev open
When opening UBI volumes by their character device names, make
sure we are opening character devices, not block devices or any
other inode type.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-01-12 13:19:15 +02:00
Peter Horton
ff99879328 UBI: initialise update marker
The in kernel copy of a volume's update marker is not initialised from the
volume table. This means that volumes where an update was unfinnished will
not be treated as "forbidden to use". This is basically that the update
functionality was broken.

Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-12 13:19:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
fc1495bf99 Merge git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
  UBIFS: fix return code in check_leaf
  UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker
  MAINTAINERS: change e-mail of Artem Bityutskiy
  UBIFS: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  UBIFS: support mounting of UBI volume character devices
  UBI: Add ubi_open_volume_path
2009-12-10 09:31:45 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
6afaf8a484 UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker
ubiupdatevol -t does the following:
- ubi_start_update()
  - set_update_marker()
  - for all LEBs ubi_eba_unmap_leb()
  - clear_update_marker()
  - ubi_wl_flush()

ubi_wl_flush() physically erases all PEB, once it returns all PEBs are
empty. clear_update_marker() has the update marker written after return.
If there is a power cut between the last two functions then the UBI
volume has no longer the "update" marker set and may have some valid
LEBs while some of them may be gone.
If that volume in question happens to be a UBIFS volume, then mount
will fail with

|UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (255 but expected 6)
|UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0
|Not a node, first 24 bytes:
|00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

if there is at least one valid LEB and the wear-leveling worker managed
to clear LEB 0.

The patch waits for the wl worker to finish prior clearing the "update"
marker on flash. The two new LEB which are scheduled for erasing after
clear_update_marker() should not matter because they are only visible to
UBI.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-04 07:47:11 +02:00
Corentin Chary
b571028418 UBI: Add ubi_open_volume_path
Add an 'ubi_open_volume_path(path, mode)' function which works like
'open_bdev_exclusive(path, mode, ...)' where path is the special file
representing the UBI volume, typically /dev/ubi0_0.

This is needed to teach UBIFS being able to mount UBI character devices.

[Comments and the patch were amended a bit by Artem]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-11-24 08:18:54 +02:00
Michael Roth
fa3012318b Kconfig: Remove useless and sometimes wrong comments
Additionally, some excessive newlines removed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-09 09:40:56 +01:00
Roel Kluin
774b138210 UBI: fix check on unsigned long
result is unsigned, the wrong check was used.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-10-20 10:13:49 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2eadaad67b UBI: fix backward compatibility
Commit 32bc482028 did not fully fix
the backward compatibility issues. We still fail to properly handle
situations when the first PEB contains non-zero image sequence
number, but one of the following PEBs contains zero image sequence
number. For example, this may happen if we mount a new image with
an old kernel, and then try to mount it in the new kernel.

This patch should fix the issue.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-10-20 10:13:04 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
Anand Gadiyar
fd589a8f0a trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
de75c771b4 UBI: improve NOR flash erasure quirk
More testing of NOR flash against power cuts showed that sometimes
eraseblocks may be unwritable, and we cannot really invalidate
them before erasure. But in this case the eraseblock probably
contains garbage anyway, and we do not have to invalidate the
headers. This assumption might be not true, but this is at least
what I have observed. So if we cannot invalidate the headers,
we make sure that the PEB does not contain valid VID header.
If this is true, everything is fine, otherwise we panic.
2009-08-14 20:02:20 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
867996b15c UBI: introduce flash dump helper
Useful for debugging problems, compiled in only if UBI debugging
is enabled. This patch also makes the UBI writing function dump
the flash if it fails to write.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14 20:02:20 +03:00
Phil Carmody
758d8e4634 UBI: eliminate possible undefined behaviour
The assignment to pos when rb is finally NULL is undefined behaviour.
Upon seeing that assignment, GCC may assume that rb is not NULL, and
the loop condition ``rb'' may be optimised away.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14 20:01:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4a406856ea UBI: print a warning if too many PEBs are corrupted
There was a bug report recently where UBI prints:

UBI error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach by scanning, error -22

error messages and refuses to attach a PEB. It turned out to be a
buggy flash driver which returned garbage to almost every UBI read.
This patch makes UBI print a better message in such cases. Namely,
if UBI finds 8 or more corrupted PEBs, it prints a warning and
lists the corrupted PEBs.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14 20:01:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
5b289b562f UBI: amend NOR flash pre-erase quirk
In case of NOR flash, UBI zeroes EC and VID headers' magic,
in order to detect interrupted erasures. It first zeroes out
the EC magic, then VID magic. However, if a power cut happens
in between, we'll end up with a corrupted EC header and a valid
VID header, in which case UBI accepts the PEB, but prints a
warning. This patch makes sure we first zero out the VID
magic, then the EC magic, not vice versa. This is just a
small amendment to prevent warning messages.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14 20:01:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
29a88c99d2 UBI: print a message if ECH is corrupted and VIDH is ok
If the EC header is corrupted, but the VID header is OK, UBI accepts the
PEB and treats it as "used". However, generally this should not happen.
Print a warning if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14 20:01:35 +03:00
Adrian Hunter
32bc482028 UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbers
Fall back onto thinking everything's OK if either of the sequence
numbers we are asked to compare is zero, which is what was used
before sequence numbers were introduced.

[ Artem: modified the patch to be applicable to upstream UBI, added
        big comment ]

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-24 20:08:52 +03:00
Adrian Hunter
7194e6f9c0 UBI: fix double free on error path
If we fail in 'ubi_eba_init_scan()', we free
'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' in there, but also later free it
in 'free_internal_volumes()'. Fix this by assigning NULL
to 'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' after it is freed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-24 20:08:52 +03:00
Holger Brunck
3dc948da78 UBI: fix bug in image sequence number handling
This patch fixes a bug in the image seq. number handling in the
scanning level. The assignment of the image_seq was incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-15 11:30:59 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
c8cc452501 UBI: gluebi: initialize ubi_num field
Do not forget to initialize 'gluebi->ubi_num' because otherwise
it will stay 0 even for ubi1 device, and gluebi will open
wrong UBI device when 'gluebi_get_device()' is called.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-15 11:30:55 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
83c2099f5e UBI: fix compilation warnings
The recent "UBI: fix NOR flash recovery" introduced compilation
warnings which were immediately spotted by our linux-next keeper.
This patch fixes them.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-08 10:15:41 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ebf53f4213 UBI: fix NOR flash recovery
This commit fixes NOR flash recovery issues observed with Spansion
S29GL512N NOR.

When NOR erases, it first fills PEBs with zeroes, then sets all bytes
to 0xFF. Filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. And when
power is cut, this results in PEBs containing correct EC and VID headers
but corrupted with zeros at the end. This confuses UBI and it mistakinly
accepts these PEBs and associate them with LEBs.

Fis this issue by zeroing EC and VID magics before erasing PEBs, to
make UBI later refuse zem.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-07 11:37:45 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
fe96efc1a3 UBI: nicify image sequence number handling
Move the image seq. number handling from I/O level to the scanning
lever, where it really belongs to. Move the @image_seq_set variable
to the @struct ubi_scan_info structure, which exists only during
scanning.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05 18:47:08 +03:00
Adrian Hunter
0c6c7fa131 UBI: add image sequence number to EC header
An image sequence number is added to the UBI erase-counter header
to be able determine if the root file system contains a mixture
of old and new images (because the flashing failed to complete).

A change to nolo is also needed for this to take effect.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05 18:47:07 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
1398788fe7 UBI: remove bogus debugging checks
The 'paranoid_check_empty()' is bogus because, which is easilly
seen on NOR flash, which has long erase cycles, and which may
easilly end-up with half-erased eraseblocks. In this case the
paranoid check fails. I is just wrong to assume that PEBs which
do not have EC headers always contain all 0xFF. Such assumption
should not be made on the I/O level, which is quite low.

Thus, just kill the check.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05 18:47:05 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
40a71a87fa UBI: add empty eraseblocks verification
This patch adds code which makes sure eraseblocks contain all 0xFF
bytes before starting using them. The verification is done only when
debugging checks are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05 18:47:03 +03:00
Kevin Cernekee
d9dd0887cc UBI: add reboot notifier
Terminate the UBI background thread prior to restarting the system.

[Artem: amended comments a little]

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10 16:50:50 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6b5c94c6b4 UBI: handle more error codes
The UBIFS WL worker may encounter read errors and there is logic
which makes a decision whether we should do one of:

1. cancel the operation and move the PEB with the read errors to
   the 'erroneous' list;
2. switch to R/O mode.

ATM, only -EIO errors trigger 1., other errors trigger 2. The idea
is that if we know we encountered an I/O error, do 1. Otherwise,
we do not know how to react, and do 2., just in case. E.g., if
the underlying driver became crazy because of a bug, we do not
want to harm any data, and switch to R/O mode.

This patch does 2 things:
1. Makes sure reads from the source PEB always cause 1. This is
   more consistent with other reads which come from the upper
   layers and never cause R/O.
2. Teaches UBI to do 1. also on -EBADMSG, UBI_IO_BAD_VID_HDR,
   -ENOMEM, and -ETIMEOUT. But this is only when reading the
   target PEB.

This preblems were hunted by Adrian Hunter.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10 16:13:28 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
815bc5f8fe UBI: fix multiple spelling typos
Some of the typos were indicated by Adrian Hunter,
some by 'aspell'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10 16:13:27 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
21d08bbcb1 UBI: fix kmem_cache_free on error patch
'kmem_cache_free()' oopeses if NULL is passed, and there is
one error-path place where UBI may call it with NULL object.
This problem was pointed to by Adrian Hunter.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10 16:13:27 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
52b605d107 UBI: print amount of reserved PEBs
When marking a PEB as bad, print how many PEBs are left reserved.
This is very useful information.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-09 18:49:51 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9c259a52fa UBI: improve messages in the WL worker
Print not only the PEB number, but also the LEB number and volume id,
which is very useful for bug hunting.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-08 13:05:43 +03:00
Dmitry Pervushin
2ba3d76a1e UBI: make gluebi a separate module
[Artem: re-worked the patch: made it release resources when the
module is unloaded, made it do module referencing, made it really
independent on UBI, tested it with the UBI test-suite which can
be found in ubi-2.6.git/tests/ubi-tests, re-named most of the
funcs/variables to get rid of the "ubi" word and make names
consistent.]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-03 17:45:23 +03:00
Dmitry Pervushin
518ceef0c9 UBI: remove built-in gluebi
Remove built-in gluebi support. This is a preparation for a
standalone glubi module support

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02 13:53:35 +03:00
Dmitry Pervushin
0e0ee1cc33 UBI: add notification API
UBI volume notifications are intended to create the API to get clients
notified about volume creation/deletion, renaming and re-sizing. A
client can subscribe to these notifications using 'ubi_volume_register()'
and cancel the subscription using 'ubi_volume_unregister()'. When UBI
volumes change, a blocking notifier is called. Clients also can request
"added" events on all volumes that existed before client subscribed
to the notifications.

If we use notifications instead of calling functions like 'ubi_gluebi_xxx()',
we can make the MTD emulation layer to be more flexible: build it as a
separate module and load/unload it on demand.

[Artem: many cleanups, rework locking, add "updated" event, provide
 device/volume info in notifiers]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02 13:53:35 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b86a2c56e5 UBI: do not switch to R/O mode on read errors
This patch improves UBI errors handling. ATM UBI switches to
R/O mode when the WL worker fails to read the source PEB.
This means that the upper layers (e.g., UBIFS) has no
chances to unmap the erroneous PEB and fix the error.
This patch changes this behaviour and makes UBI put PEBs
like this into a separate RB-tree, thus preventing the
WL worker from hitting the same read errors again and
again.

But there is a 10% limit on a maximum amount of PEBs like this.
If there are too much of them, UBI switches to R/O mode.

Additionally, this patch teaches UBI not to panic and
switch to R/O mode if after a PEB has been copied, the
target LEB cannot be read back. Instead, now UBI cancels
the operation and schedules the target PEB for torturing.

The error paths has been tested by ingecting errors
into 'ubi_eba_copy_leb()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02 13:53:35 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
87960c0b12 UBI: fix and clean-up error paths in WL worker
This patch fixes the error path in the WL worker - in same cases
UBI oopses when 'goto out_error' happens and e1 or e2 are NULL.
This patch also cleans up the error paths a little. And I have
tested nearly all error paths in the WL worker.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02 13:53:35 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
90bf0265e5 UBI: introduce new constants
This patch is a clean-up and a preparation for the following
patches. It introduece constants for the return values of the
'ubi_eba_copy_leb()' function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02 13:53:35 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ddbd3b6170 UBI: fix race condition
This patch fixes a minor problem where we may fail to wake
upe the UBI background thread. This is not fatal at all,
it may just result at sligtly worse performace for a short
period of time, just because the thread will be woken up
when real I/O on the UBI starts.

Anywey, the issue is the race condition between
'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()' and 'ubi_thread()'. If we do not
serialize them, the 'wake_up_process()' call may be done
before 'ubi_thread()' went seep, but after it checked
'ubi->thread_enabled'.

This issue was spotted by Shin Hong <hongshin@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-26 12:47:47 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
95c9c1da79 UBI: minor serialization fix
The @vol->upd_marker should be protected by the @ubi->device_mutex,
otherwise 'paranoid_check_volume()' complains sometimes because
vol->upd_marker is 1 while vtbl_rec->upd_marker is 0.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:26 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d38dce5bfb UBI: do not panic if volume check fails
If a volume paranoid check fails, do not return an error
code to the caller, but just print error messages and go
forward. The primary reason for this is that it is difficult
to recover and cancel the operation at that stage.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:26 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
cfcf0ec84b UBI: add dump_stack in checking code
I am experiencing an error in 'paranoid_check_volume()'. Add
dump_stack() there to make it easier to identify the reasons
of the error.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:26 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ffb6b7e4fd UBI: fix races in I/O debugging checks
When paranoid checs are enabled, the 'io_paral' test from the
'mtd-utils' package fails. The symptoms are:

UBI error: paranoid_check_all_ff: flash region at PEB 3973:512, length 15872 does not contain all 0xFF bytes
UBI error: paranoid_check_all_ff: paranoid check failed for PEB 3973
UBI: hex dump of the 512-16384 region

It turned out to be a bug in the checking function. Suppose there
are 2 tasks - A and B. Task A is the wear-levelling working
('wear_leveling_worker()'). It is reading the VID header to find
which LEB this PEB belongs to. Say, task A is reading header
of PEB X. Suppose PEB X is unmapped, and has no VID header.
Task B is trying to write to PEB X.

Task A: in 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()': reads the VID header from PEB X.
        The read data contain all 0xFF bytes.
Task B: writes VID header and some data to PEB X
Task A: assumes PEB X is empty, calls 'paranoid_check_all_ff()', which
        fails.

The solution for this problem is to make 'paranoid_check_all_ff()'
re-read the VID header, re-check it, and only if it is not there,
check the rest. This now implemented by the 'paranoid_check_empty()'
function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:25 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2cb81e218f UBI: small debugging code optimization
The @ubi->dbg_peb_buf is needed only when paranoid checks are
enabled, not when debugging in general is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:25 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e1cf7e6dd4 UBI: improve debugging messages
Various minor improvements to the debugging messages which
I found useful while hunting problems.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:25 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f089c0b28c UBI: re-name volumes_mutex to device_mutex
The mutex essencially protects the entire UBI device, so the
old @volumes_mutex name is a little misleading.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:28:24 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
383d08e045 UBI: remove redundant mutex
The @mult_mutex does not serve any purpose. We already have
@volumes_mutex and it is enough. The @volume mutex is pushed
down to the 'ubi_rename_volumes()', because we want first
to open all volumes in the exclusive mode, and then lock the
mutex, just like all other ioctl's (remove, re-size, etc) do.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-05-18 12:26:41 +03:00
Corentin Chary
1b24bc3aab UBI: add fsync capability
Now, we can call fsync() on an UBI volume.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-02-20 13:34:06 +02:00
Sidney Amani
766fb95ba0 UBI: allow direct user-space I/O
Introduce a new ioctl UBI_IOCSETPROP to set properties
on a volume. Also add the first property:
UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE, this property is used to set the
ability to use direct writes in userspace

Signed-off-by: Sidney Amani <seed@uffs.org>
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-27 16:54:41 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
36b477d005 UBI: fix resource de-allocation
GregKH asked to fix UBI which has fake device release method. Indeed,
we have to free UBI device description object from the release method,
because otherwise we'll oops is someone opens a UBI device sysfs file,
then the device is removed, and he reads the file. With this fix, he
will get -ENODEV instead of an oops.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-20 18:13:53 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8c4c19f136 UBI: remove unused variable
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-20 18:13:53 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
3013ee31b6 UBI: use nicer 64-bit math
Get rid of 'do_div()' and use more user-friendly primitives from
'linux/math64.h'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:27:44 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f429b2ea8e UBI: add ioctl compatibility
UBI ioctl's do not work when running 64-bit kernel and 32-bit
user-land. Fix this by adding the compat_ioctl method.

Also, UBI serializes all ioctls, so more than one ioctl at a time
is not a problem. Amd UBI does not seem to depend on anything else,
so use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl (no BKL needed).

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2009-01-18 14:27:41 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
4d187a88d3 UBI: constify file operations
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ade44ce07c UBI: allow all ioctls
Some ioctl's in UBI are enabled only when debugging is switched
on. There is not particular reason for this, just noone needed
them. However, some people need the now for their user-space
development. Thus, allow these ioctl's even if UBI debugging
is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
573135b5db UBI: remove unnecessry header inclusion
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Corentin Chary
a27ce8f55d UBI: add ioctl for is_mapped operation
This patch adds ioctl to check if an LEB is mapped or not (as a
debugging option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
 some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Corentin Chary
c3da23be16 UBI: add ioctl for unmap operation
This patch adds ioctl for the LEB unmap operation (as a debugging
option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
 some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Corentin Chary
141e6ebd1b UBI: add ioctl for map operation
This patch adds ioctl for the LEB map operation (as a debugging
option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
 some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-01-18 14:02:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7c51d57e9d Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (67 commits)
  [MTD] [MAPS] Fix printk format warning in nettel.c
  [MTD] [NAND] add cmdline parsing (mtdparts=) support to cafe_nand
  [MTD] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002
  [MTD] [NAND] ndfc driver
  [MTD] [TESTS] Fix some size_t printk format warnings
  [MTD] LPDDR Makefile and KConfig
  [MTD] LPDDR extended physmap driver to support LPDDR flash
  [MTD] LPDDR added new pfow_base parameter
  [MTD] LPDDR Command set driver
  [MTD] LPDDR PFOW definition
  [MTD] LPDDR QINFO records definitions
  [MTD] LPDDR qinfo probing.
  [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: convert from ns to clock ticks more accurately
  [MTD] [NAND] pxa3xx: fix non-page-aligned reads
  [MTD] [NAND] fix nandsim sched.h references
  [MTD] [NAND] alauda: use USB API functions rather than constants
  [MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  [MTD] fix m25p80 64-bit divisions
  [MTD] fix dataflash 64-bit divisions
  [MTD] [NAND] Set the fsl elbc ECCM according the settings in bootloader.
  ...

Fixed up trivial debug conflicts in drivers/mtd/devices/{m25p80.c,mtd_dataflash.c}
2009-01-09 12:37:15 -08:00
Coly Li
73ac36ea14 fix similar typos to successfull
When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull".  After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)

This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
57c44c5f6f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  trivial: chack -> check typo fix in main Makefile
  trivial: Add a space (and a comma) to a printk in 8250 driver
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in powerpc Makefile
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in usb.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in qla1280.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in a100u2w.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in megaraid.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ql4_mbx.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in acpi_memhotplug.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in ipw2100.c
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "firmware" in atmel.c
  trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig
  trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments
  trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
  trivial: update Jesper Juhl CREDITS entry with new email
  trivial: fix singal -> signal typo
  trivial: Fix incorrect use of "loose" in event.c
  trivial: printk: fix indentation of new_text_line declaration
  trivial: rtc-stk17ta8: fix sparse warning
  ...
2009-01-07 11:31:52 -08:00
Kay Sievers
475b44c199 mtd: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:38 -08:00
Frederik Schwarzer
025dfdafe7 trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation
- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-06 11:28:06 +01:00
David Woodhouse
353816f43d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi.c
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/poodle.c
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c
2009-01-05 10:50:33 +01:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f2863c54f3 UBI: fix checkpatch.pl warnings
Just minor indentation and "over 80 characters" fixes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-28 12:20:51 +02:00
Kay Sievers
160bbab300 [MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-12-23 10:00:14 +00:00
Xiaochuan-Xu
7b6c32daec UBI: simplify PEB protection code
UBI has 2 RB-trees to implement PEB protection, which is too
much for simply prevent PEB from being moved for some time.
This patch implements this using lists. The benefits:

1. No need to allocate protection entry on each PEB get.
2. No need to maintain balanced trees and walk them.

Signed-off-by: Xiaochuan-Xu <xiaochuan-xu@cqu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-16 10:09:58 +02:00
Xiaochuan-Xu
23553b2c08 UBI: prepare for protection tree improvements
This patch modifies @struct ubi_wl_entry and adds union which
contains only one element so far. This is just a preparation
for further changes which will kill the protection tree and
make UBI use a list instead.

Signed-off-by: Xiaochuan-Xu <xiaochuan-xu@cqu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-15 19:34:50 +02:00
Adrian Hunter
69423d99fc [MTD] update internal API to support 64-bit device size
MTD internal API presently uses 32-bit values to represent
device size.  This patch updates them to 64-bits but leaves
the external API unchanged.  Extending the external API
is a separate issue for several reasons.  First, no one
needs it at the moment.  Secondly, whether the implementation
is done with IOCTLs, sysfs or both is still debated.  Thirdly
external API changes require the internal API to be accepted
first.

Note that although the MTD API will be able to support 64-bit
device sizes, existing drivers do not and are not required
to do so, although NAND base has been updated.

In general, changing from 32-bit to 64-bit values cause little
or no changes to the majority of the code with the following
exceptions:
    	- printk message formats
    	- division and modulus of 64-bit values
    	- NAND base support
	- 32-bit local variables used by mtdpart and mtdconcat
	- naughtily assuming one structure maps to another
	in MEMERASE ioctl

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-12-10 13:37:21 +00:00
Stefan Roese
ad5942bad6 UBI: return -ENOMEM upon failing vmalloc
Return with correct error code (-ENOMEM) from ubi_attach_mtd_dev() upon
failing vmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-10 14:28:48 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6fa6f5bbc3 UBI: handle write errors in WL worker
When a PEB is moved and a write error happens, UBI switches
to R/O mode, which is wrong, because we just copy the data
and may select a different PEB and re-try this. This patch
fixes WL worker's behavior.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-05 13:46:50 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
3c98b0a043 UBI: fix error path
Make sure the resources had not already been freed before
freeing them in the error path of the WL worker function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-05 13:46:50 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6a8f483f33 UBI: some code re-structuring
Minor code re-structuring and commentaries fixes to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-05 13:46:49 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4df581f3dc UBI: fix deadlock
We cannot call 'ubi_wl_get_peb()' with @ubi->buf_mutex locked,
because 'ubi_wl_get_peb()' may force erasure, which, in turn,
may call 'torture_peb()' which also locks the @ubi->buf_mutex
and deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-05 13:46:49 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ed45819f31 UBI: fix warnings when debugging is enabled
The 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()' and 'ubi_io_read_ec_hdr()' function
have the 'verbose' argument which controls whether they should
print a warning if the VID/EC header was not found or was corrupted.
Some callers require the headers to be OK, and pass 1. Some allow
a corrupted/not present header, and pass 0.

       if (UBI_IO_DEBUG)
               verbose = 1;

And UBI_IO_DEBUG is 1 if CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_MSG_BLD is true. So in
this case the warning is printed all the time. This confuses people.

Thus, do not print the messages as warnings if UBI_IO_DEBUG is true,
but print them as debugging messages instead.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-03 13:24:48 +02:00
Vitaliy Gusev
2ad4988715 UBI: Don't exit from ubi_thread until kthread_should_stop() is true
If ubi_thread() exits but kthread_should_stop() is not true
then kthread_stop() will never return and cleanup thread
will forever stay in "D" state.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-11-06 11:13:04 +02:00
Zoltan Sogor
b77bcb0789 UBI: fix EBADMSG handling
'ubi_io_read_data()' may return EBADMSG in case of an ECC error,
and we should not panic because of this. We have CRC32 checksum
and may check the data. So just ignore the EBADMSG error.

This patch also fixes a minor spelling error at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Sogor <weth@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-11-06 11:13:02 +02:00
Deepak Saxena
762a9f291b UBI: print reserved_peb when it is too large
This patch makes debugging a missconfigured UBI a bit easier
by providing the needed information in the boot log.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-10-09 16:19:04 +03:00
Julien Brunel
0e4a008a4f UBI: fix IS_ERR test
In case of error, the function add_volume returns an ERR pointer. The
result of IS_ERR, which is supposed to be used in a test as it is, is
here checked to be less than zero, which seems odd. We suggest to
replace this test by a simple IS_ERR test.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@def0@
expression x;
position p0;
@@
x@p0 = add_volume(...)

@protected@
expression def0.x,E;
position def0.p0;
position p;
statement S;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
if (!IS_ERR(x) && ...) {<... x@p ...>} else S

@unprotected@
expression def0.x,E;
identifier fld;
position def0.p0;
position p != protected.p;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
* x@p->fld
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by:  Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by:  Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-09-26 19:24:37 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
7d200e88cb UBI: remove BKL
We do not need BKL in UBI because we serialize things
properly.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-09-05 16:29:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d37e6bf68f UBI: always start the background thread
This fix only affects UBI debugging.

If the the background thread is disabled for debugging purposes,
start it anyway, because otherwise we see tonns of kernel debugging
complaints like this:

INFO: task ubi_bgt0d:26857 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
ubi_bgt0d     D dd37bf94     0 26857      2
       dd37bfcc 00000086 f8e17cea dd37bf94 00000046 00000000 00000000 f5c62430
       f5c62430 f5c62590 c2a09c80 f6cbd498 dd8e9cbc 00000296 dd37bfb0 00000296
       dd8e9cb8 dd8e9cbc dd37bfcc c0119774 00000000 00000000 c0132e89 f6961560
Call Trace:
 [<f8e17cea>] ? ubi_thread+0x0/0x127 [ubi]
 [<c0119774>] ? complete+0x43/0x4b
 [<c0132e89>] ? kthread+0x0/0x5b
 [<f8e17cea>] ? ubi_thread+0x0/0x127 [ubi]
 [<c0132eae>] kthread+0x25/0x5b
 [<c0132e89>] ? kthread+0x0/0x5b
 [<c0104953>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
 =======================

So start it, and go sleep inside it, instead of creating it and never
start.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-25 11:35:15 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
eeb16e87b6 UBI: fix gcc warning
Fix the following warning:

drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c: In function 'ubi_rename_volumes':
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c:642: warning: statement with no effect

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:36:10 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9869cd801c UBI: remove pre-sqnum images support
Before UBI got into mainline, there was a slight flash format
change - we did not have sequence number support, then added it.

We have carried full support of those ancient images till this
moment. Now the support is removed, well, not fully removed.

Now UBI will support only _clean_ old images, which were cleanly
detached last time (just before kernel upgrade). This is most
likely the case.

But we will not support unclean ancient images. Surprisingly,
this allows us to remove a big chunk of legacy code.

And the same should be true for downgrading: clean images should
downgrade fine, but unclean ones will not.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:36:09 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ebaaf1af3e UBI: fix kernel-doc errors and warnings
No functional changes, just tweak comments to make kernel-doc
work fine and stop complaining.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:36:09 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9c9ec14770 UBI: fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings
Just out or curiousity ran checkpatch.pl for whole UBI,
and discovered there are quite a few of stylistic issues.
Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:36:09 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4d88de4beb UBI: bugfix - do not torture PEB needlessly
This is probably a copy-paste bug - we torture the old PEB
in the atomic LEB change function, but we should not do this.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:34:46 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8c1e6ee10b UBI: rework scrubbing messages
If bit-flips happen often, UBI prints to many messages. Lessen
the amount by only printing the messages when the PEB has been
scrubbed. Also, print torturing messages.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:34:46 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f40ac9cdf6 UBI: implement multiple volumes rename
Quite useful ioctl which allows to make atomic system upgrades.
The idea belongs to Richard Titmuss <richard_titmuss@logitech.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:34:46 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
c8566350a3 UBI: fix and re-work debugging stuff
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:34:45 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
85c6e6e282 UBI: amend commentaries
Hch asked not to use "unit" for sub-systems, let it be so.
Also some other commentaries modifications.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
bb84c1a199 UBI: fix error message
The ubi_err() macro will add \n.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a6ea440769 UBI: improve mkvol request validation
Check that volume name is not shorter than 'name_len'.

No need to copy the trailing zero byte because whole array
was zeroed earlier.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a5bf619041 UBI: add ubi_sync() interface
To flush MTD device caches.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Bruce Leonard
73789a3d9f UBI: fix 64-bit calculations
Signed-off-by: Bruce Leonard <brucle@selinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
23add7455c UBI: fix LEB locking
leb_read_unlock() may be called simultaniously by several tasks.
The would race at the following code:

 up_read(&le->mutex);
 if (free)
         kfree(le);

And it is possible that one task frees 'le' before the other tasks
do 'up_read()'. Fix this by doing up_read and free inside the
'ubi->ltree' lock. Below it the oops we had because of this:

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, integck/7504
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6c4f
IP: [<c0211221>] spin_bug+0x5c/0xdb
*pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: ubifs ubi nandsim nand nand_ids nand_ecc video output

Pid: 7504, comm: integck Not tainted (2.6.26-rc3ubifs26 #8)
EIP: 0060:[<c0211221>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
EIP is at spin_bug+0x5c/0xdb
EAX: 00000032 EBX: 6b6b6b6b ECX: 6b6b6b6b EDX: f7f7ce30
ESI: f76491dc EDI: c044f51f EBP: e8a736cc ESP: e8a736a8
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process integck (pid: 7504, ti=e8a72000 task=f7f7ce30 task.ti=e8a72000)
Stack: c044f754 c044f51f 00000000 f7f7d024 00001d50 00000001 f76491dc 00000296       f6df50e0 e8a736d8 c02112f0 f76491dc e8a736e8 c039157a f7d9e830 f76491d8       e8a7370c c020b975 f76491dc 00000296 f76491f8 00000000 f76491d8 00000000 Call Trace:
[<c02112f0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x50/0x7c
[<c039157a>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x58
[<c020b975>] ? rwsem_wake+0x4b/0x122
[<c0390e0a>] ? call_rwsem_wake+0xa/0xc
[<c0139ee7>] ? up_read+0x28/0x31
[<f8873b3c>] ? leb_read_unlock+0x73/0x7b [ubi]
[<f88742a3>] ? ubi_eba_read_leb+0x195/0x2b0 [ubi]
[<f8872a04>] ? ubi_leb_read+0xaf/0xf8 [ubi]

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:56 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
472018f73e UBI: fix memory leak on error path
Normally UBI volumes are freed in the release function of
the struct device object. However, on error path they may
have to be freed before the struct device objects have been
initialized.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:55 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
505d1caa79 UBI: do not forget to free internal volumes
UBI forgets to free internal volumes when detaching MTD device.
Fix this.

Pointed-out-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:55 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
abc5e92262 UBI: fix memory leak
ubi_free_volume() function sets ubi->volumes[] to NULL, so
ubi_eba_close() is useless, it does not free what has to be freed.
So zap it and free vol->eba_tbl at the volume release function.

Pointed-out-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:54 +03:00
Kyungmin Park
cadb40ccc1 UBI: avoid unnecessary division operations
UBI already checks that @min io size is the power of 2 at io_init.
It is save to use bit operations then.

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:54 +03:00
Kyungmin Park
a0fd1efd48 UBI: fix buffer padding
Instead of correctly pad the buffer wich we are writing to the
eraseblock during update, we used weird construct:

memset(buf + len, 0xFF, len - len);

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:54 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
beeea63603 UBI: add a comment
It is not clear why we schedule PEB for scrubbing in case of
-EBADMSG. Elaborate.

Requested-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:54 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
979c9296bd UBI: print error code
Print error code if checking failed which is very useful
to identify problems.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-24 13:32:54 +03:00
Jonathan Corbet
72b67048f5 UBI: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:03:43 -06:00
Artem Bityutskiy
697fa9721c UBI: add a message
UBI scan takes quite a time on some systems, so it is nice
to print a message that we started attaching an MTD device.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-04-23 11:32:10 +01:00
David Woodhouse
e43fe686e4 Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6 2008-04-23 09:57:25 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
cb53b3b999 [MTD] replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-04-22 12:36:04 +01:00
Artem Bityutskiy
434b825e1f UBI: print media information earlier
Print information about logicale eraseblock size, sub-page
size and so on at early stage, befor an attempt to attach
the MTD device was made. This is more convenient to do so
because the attempt to attach may fail, and the information
is never printed then.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-20 18:02:42 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4bc1dca4b0 UBI: fix mean EC calculation
(a + b) / (c + d) != a / c + b / d. The old code errornously
assumed this incorrect formuld. Instead, just sum all erase
counters in a 64-bit variable and divide to the number of EBs
at the end.

Thanks to Adrian Hunter for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-19 20:49:41 +03:00
Jan Altenberg
cbd8a9d2cd UBI: initialize static volumes with vol->used_bytes
I came across a problem which seems to be present since:

commit 941dfb07ed
UBI: set correct gluebi device size

ubi_create_gluebi() leaves mtd->size = 0 for static volumes. So even
existing static volumes are initialized with a size of 0.

Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <jan.altenberg@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-17 11:32:02 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6e0c84e37e UBI: improve Kconfig documentation
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-17 11:32:00 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
c4506092c1 UBI: fix error printing
Use existing ubi_err() as the rest of the code does.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-17 11:31:59 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
92a74f1c1c UBI: make ubi-header.h local
The new trend in linux is not to store headers which define
on-media format in the include/ directory, but instead, store
them locally. This is because these headers "do not define any
kernel<->userspace interface".

Do so for UBI as well.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-17 11:31:58 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a4f0fcdfb2 UBI: be verbose when debuggin is enabled
Make I/O function to be always verbose when about CRC errors
and magic number errors when I/O debugging is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-04-17 11:31:58 +03:00
Adrian Bunk
f7f0283776 UBI: mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: fix memory leak
This patch fixes a memory leak introduced by commit
4ccf8cffa9 and spotted by the Coverity
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-03-04 11:03:09 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
8eee9f100b UBI: fix sparse errors in ubi.h
In C, signed 1-bit bitfields can only take the values 0 and -1, only 0 and 1
are ever assigned in current code.  Make them unsigned bitfields.

Fixes the (repeated) sparse errors:
drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:220:15: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:221:17: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:222:18: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:223:16: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:224:20: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-03-04 11:02:50 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
19cd7b7de1 UBI: fix error message
Make it print "UBI error: cannot attach mtd4"
instead of "UBI error: cannot attach 4"

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-03-04 11:02:26 +02:00
S.Çağlar Onur
fc398769ac UBI: silence warning
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c: In function `ubi_create_volume':
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c:379: warning: statement with no effect

Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-03-04 11:02:04 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6dc4a8717f UBI: do not flush queue on each vtbl change
This is just not necessary. We re-write whole layout copy, so
the old contents cannot show up again sice scan process will
drop it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-02-01 13:48:49 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e653879c26 UBI: implement atomic LEB change ioctl
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:26 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
60c031531a UBI: handle zero-length case
ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change() has to just map the LEB to a free PEB
if data length is zero.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
1b68d0eea5 UBI: simplify internal interfaces
Instead of passing vol_id to all functions and then find
struct ubi_volume, pass struct ubi_volume pointer.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
0411e73531 UBI: do not change file pointer while updating
Since we do not change semantics of seek(), changing the file
pointer while updating does not make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
91f2d53cd7 UBI: add layout volume information
Add more information about layout volume to make userspace tools
use the macros instead of constants. Also rename UBI_LAYOUT_VOL_ID
to make it consistent with other macros.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
c18a84186c UBI: fix warnings
Old gcc complains:

CC      drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c: In function 'wear_leveling_worker':
drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c:746: warning: 'pe' may be used uninitialized in this function
CC      drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: In function 'ubi_scan':
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:772: warning: 'ec' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:772: note: 'ec' was declared here

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
64203195ed UBI: add sanity check
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2f9270e7fe UBI: remove bogus assertion
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:25 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d536058752 UBI: bugfix: calculate data offset properly
Data offset is VID header offset + VID header size aligned to
the min. I/O unit size up.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ddc4939161 UBI: amend array size
Since the data offset parameter was removed, the size of
the parameters array is now 2, not 3.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4ccf8cffa9 UBI: add auto-resize feature
The problem: NAND flashes have different amount of initial bad physical
eraseblocks (marked as bad by the manufacturer). For example, for 256MiB
Samsung OneNAND flash there might be from 0 to 40 bad initial eraseblocks,
which is about 2%. When UBI is used as the base system, one needs to know
the exact amount of good physical eraseblocks, because this number is
needed to create the UBI image which is put to the devices during
production. But this number is not know, which forces us to use the
minimum number of good physical eraseblocks. And UBI additionally
reserves some percentage of physical eraseblocks for bad block handling
(default is 1%), so we have 1-3% of PEBs reserved at the end, depending
on the amount of initial bad PEBs. But it is desired to always have
1% (or more, depending on the configuration).

Solution: this patch adds an "auto-resize" flag to the volume table.
The volume which has the "auto-resize" flag will automatically be re-sized
(enlarged) on the first UBI initialization. UBI clears the flag when
the volume is re-sized. Only one volume may have the "auto-resize" flag.

So, the production UBI image may have one volume with "auto-resize"
flag set, and its size is automatically adjusted on the first boot
of the device.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
896c0c06aa UBI: use bit-fields
Save 12 bytes of RAM per volume by using bit-fields instead of integers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ae616e1be1 UBI: fix warnings
drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: In function ‘vol_cdev_read’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:187: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
CC [M]  drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_erase’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:483: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_unmap’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:544: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_map’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:582: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b9a06623d9 UBI: get rid of ubi_ltree_slab
This slab cache is not really needed since the number of objects
is low and the constructor does not make much sense because we
allocate oblects when doint I/O, which is way slower then allocation.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-01-25 16:41:24 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4b3cc34061 UBI: bugfix: do not forget to increment vol_count
When creating a new volume, do not forget to increment the
vol_count variable.

Also, users are not interested in internal volumes, so do not show
them in the volumes_count sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:18 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
aeddb87718 UBI: do not support kiB
Be strict and accept only KiB, MiB and GiB, not Kib, not kib, etc.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:18 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b6b76ba466 UBI: add mtd_num sysfs attribute
Expose number or the underlying MTD device in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d1f3dd6cc0 UBI: fix mtd device string parsing
UBI allows to specify MTD device name or number when the module is being
loaded. When parsing MTD device identity string, it first tries to treat
it as device NAME, and if that fails, it treats it as device number.

Make it vice-versa as this is more logical and makes less troubles when
you have an MTD device named "1" and try to load mtd1 which has different
name. This is especially easy to hit when gluebi is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
783b273afa UBI: use separate mutex for volumes checking
Introduce a separate mutex which serializes volumes checking,
because we cammot really use volumes_mutex - it cases reverse
locking problems with mtd_tbl_mutex when gluebi is used -
thanks to lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
897a316c9e UBI: handle attach ioctl
Actually implement the MTD device attach/detach handlers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
dd38fccfbc UBI: remove data_offset
'data_offset' parameter does not really make sense and it is not
needed. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
cdfa788acd UBI: prepare attach and detach functions
Prepare the attach and detach functions to by used outside of
module initialization:

* detach function checks reference count before detaching
* it kills the background thread as well

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e73f4459d9 UBI: add UBI devices reference counting
This is one more step on the way to "removable" UBI devices. It
adds reference counting for UBI devices. Every time a volume on
this device is opened - the device's refcount is increased. It
is also increased if someone is reading any sysfs file of this
UBI device or of one of its volumes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9f961b5756 UBI: add UBI control device
This patch is a preparation to make UBI devices dynamic. It
adds an UBI control device which has dynamically allocated
major number and registers itself as "ubi_ctrl". It does not
do anything so far. The idea is that this device will allow
to attach/detach MTD devices from userspace.

This is symilar to what the Linux device mapper has.

The next things to do are:
* Fix UBI, because it now assumes UBI devices cannot go away
* Implement control device ioctls which will attach/detach MTD
  devices

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:17 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
16f557ecbf UBI: fix comment
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
593dd33c92 UBI: fix ubi_wl_flush
The flush function should finish all the pending jobs. But if
somebody else is doing a work, this function should wait and let
it finish.

This patche uses rw semaphore for synchronization purpose - it
just looks quite convinient.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
458dbb3d07 UBI: fix printk
Add proper log level to printk's.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
43f9b25a9c UBI: bugfix: protect from volume removal
When the WL worker is moving an LEB, the volume might go away
occasionally. UBI does not handle these situations correctly.

This patch introduces a new mutex which serializes wear-levelling
worker and the the 'ubi_wl_put_peb()' function. Now, if one puts
an LEB, and its PEB is being moved, it will wait on the mutex.
And because we unmap all LEBs when removing volumes, this will make
the volume remove function to wait while the LEB movement
finishes.

Below is an example of an oops which should be fixed by this patch:

Pid: 9167, comm: io_paral Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5-ubi-2.6.git #2)
EIP: 0060:[<f884a379>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
EIP is at prot_tree_del+0x2a/0x63 [ubi]
EAX: f39a90e0 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000134
ESI: f39a90e0 EDI: f39a90e0 EBP: f2d55ddc ESP: f2d55dd4
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process io_paral (pid: 9167, ti=f2d54000 task=f72a8030 task.ti=f2d54000)
Stack: f39a95f8 ef6aae50 f2d55e08 f884a511 f88538e1 f884ecea 00000134 00000000
       f39a9604 f39a95f0 efea8280 00000000 f39a90e0 f2d55e40 f8847261 f8850c3c
       f884eaad 00000001 000000b9 00000134 00000172 000000b9 00000134 00000001
Call Trace:
 [<c0105227>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
 [<c01052e2>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa5/0xca
 [<c01053d6>] show_registers+0xcf/0x21b
 [<c0105648>] die+0x126/0x224
 [<c0119a62>] do_page_fault+0x27f/0x60d
 [<c037dd62>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<f884a511>] ubi_wl_put_peb+0xf0/0x191 [ubi]
 [<f8847261>] ubi_eba_unmap_leb+0xaf/0xcc [ubi]
 [<f8843c21>] ubi_remove_volume+0x102/0x1e8 [ubi]
 [<f8846077>] ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x22a/0x383 [ubi]
 [<c017d768>] do_ioctl+0x68/0x71
 [<c017d7c6>] vfs_ioctl+0x55/0x271
 [<c017da15>] sys_ioctl+0x33/0x52
 [<c0104152>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5
 =======================

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d2c4685509 UBI: improve comment
Explain better the purpose of thie 'move_to_put' stuff.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d19bafd99d UBI: add PID to debugging prints
Also, use single dbg_msg() macro for all prints.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
40e4d0c166 UBI: tweak volumes locking some more
Make the code more consistent by requiring the caller to lock the
ubi->volume_mutex, because this is what we do for updates.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d05c77a816 UBI: introduce volume refcounting
Add ref_count field to UBI volumes and remove weired "vol->removed"
field. This way things are better understandable and we do not have
to do whold show_attr operation under spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:16 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
db6e5770ef UBI: simplify error handling
If we fail halfway through sysfs file creation, we may just call
sysfs remove function and it will delete all the files we created.
For non-existing files it will also be OK - the remove functions
just return -ENOENT.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
35ad5fb76c UBI: fix and cleanup volume opening functions
This patch fixes error codes of the functions - if the device number
is out of range, -EINVAL should be returned. It also removes unneeded
try_module_get call from the open by name function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
fc75a1e166 UBI: fix error path
Error path in volume creation is bogus. First of, it ovverrides the
'err' variable and returns zero to the caller. Second, ubi_assert()
in the release function is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
450f872a8e UBI: get device when opening volume
When a volume is opened, get its kref via get_device() call.
And put the reference when closing the volume. With this, we
may have a bit saner volume delete.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
c63a491d37 UBI: add some more comments
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
cae0a77125 UBI: tweak volumes locking
Transform vtbl_mutex to volumes_mutex - this just makes code
easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
89b96b6929 UBI: improve internal interfaces
Pass volume description object to the EBA function which makes
more sense, and EBA function do not have to find the volume
description object by volume ID.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
77c722dde9 UBI: bugfix: dont oops with NULL module parameter
E.g., it oopsed in case of: modprobe ubi mtd = 0

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b96bf4c33d UBI: remove ubi_devices_cnt
This global variablea is not really needed, remove it

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:15 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
06b68ba156 UBI: create ubi_wl_entry slab on initialization
Similarly to ltree_entry_slab, it makes more sense to create
and destroy ubi_wl_entry slab on module initialization/exit.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
3a8d464286 UBI: create ltree_entry slab on initialization
Since the ltree_entry slab cache is a global entity, which is
used by all UBI devices, it is more logical to create it on
module initialization time and destro on module exit time.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
01f7b309e4 UBI: improve error messages
Always print error code with error messages, sometimes it is
extremely helpful info.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
49dfc29928 UBI: remove redundant field
Remove redundant ubi->major field - we have it in ubi->cdev.dev
already.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
732aeacff6 UBI: minor tidy-ups
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Jesper Juhl
54b2c8f93d UBI: silence a warning
This patch silences the following warning :

  drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c:73: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function

gcc can't see that we always initialize ret in all situations where it is
actually used. The one case where it's not initialized is when we BUG(),
but gcc doesn't know that we won't then continue and use an uninitialized
'ret'.

This patch results in code that does exactely the same as before, but it
also makes gcc shut up, so we generate one less line of warning noise.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
393852ecfe UBI: add ubi_leb_map interface
The idea of this interface belongs to Adrian Hunter. The
interface is extremely useful when one has to have a guarantee
that an LEB will contain all 0xFFs even in case of an unclean
reboot. UBI does have an 'ubi_leb_erase()' call which may do
this, but it is stupid and ineffecient, because it flushes whole
queue. I should be re-worked to just be a pair of unmap,
map calls.

The user of the interfaci is UBIFS at the moment.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
94780d4de2 UBI: bugfix: allocate mandatory EBs first
First allocate the necessary eraseblocks, then the optional ones.
Otherwise it allocates all PEBs for bad EB handling, and fails
on then following EBA LEB allocation.

Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:14 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2362a53ec5 UBI: fix error code in ubi_io_read()
When NAND detects an ECC error, it returns -EBADMSG. It does not
stop reading requested data if one page has an ECC error, it keeps
going and reads all the requested data. If it fails to read all
the data, it does not return -EBADMSG, but returns the error code
which reflects the reason of the failure.

But some drivers may have bugs (e.g., OneNAND had) and stop reading
after the first ECC error, so it returns -EBADMSG. In turn, UBI
propagates this up to the caller. The caller will treat this as
"all the requested data was read, but there was an ECC error".

So we change the error code to -EIO if it is -EBADMSG and the read
length is less then the requested length. We also add an assertion,
so if UBI debugging is enabled, UBI will bug.

Pointed-to-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-12-26 19:15:13 +02:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ba25f9dcc4 Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
David Woodhouse
e3d18658d4 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6 2007-10-14 14:29:00 +01:00
Artem Bityutskiy
cc5f4f2875 UBI: return correct error code
Fix the following warning:

drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c: In function 'ubi_eba_init_scan':
drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c:1116: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

Pointed-to-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:21 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
5abde384e3 UBI: remove useless inlines
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:21 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e8823bd63d UBI: fix atomic LEB change problems
When the UBI device is nearly full, i.e. all LEBs are mapped, we have
only one spare LEB left - the one we reserved for WL purposes. Well,
I do not count the LEBs which were reserved for bad PEB handling -
suppose NOR flash for simplicity. If an "atomic LEB change operation"
is run, and the WL unit is moving a LEB, we have no spare LEBs to
finish the operation and fail, which is not good. Moreover, if there
are 2 or more simultanious "atomic LEB change" requests, only one of
them has chances to succeed, the other will fail with -ENOSPC. Not
good either.

This patch does 2 things:
1. Reserves one PEB for the "atomic LEB change" operation.
2. Serealize the operations so that only on of them may run
   at a time (by means of a mutex).

Pointed-to-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:21 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
6986646ba7 UBI: use byte hexdump
More handy since word hexdump prints in host endian.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:21 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
e88d6e10e5 UBI: do not use vmalloc on I/O path
Similar reason as in case of the previous patch: it causes
deadlocks if a filesystem with writeback support works on top
of UBI. So pre-allocate needed buffers when attaching MTD device.
We also need mutexes to protect the buffers, but they do not
cause much contantion because they are used in recovery, torture,
and WL copy routines, which are called seldom.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:21 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
33818bbb84 UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS
Use GFP_NOFS flag when allocating memory on I/O path, because otherwise
we may deadlock the filesystem which works on top of us. We observed
the deadlocks with UBIFS. Example:

VFS->FS lock a lock->UBI->kmalloc()->VFS writeback->FS locks the same
lock again.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
ef6075fbfc UBI: use linux print_hex_dump(), not home-grown one
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Jesper Juhl
0169b49d52 UBI: don't use array index before testing if it is negative
I can't find anything guaranteeing that 'ubi_num' cannot be <0 in
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c::ubi_open_volume(), and in fact the code
even tests for that and errors out if so. Unfortunately the test
for "ubi_num < 0" happens after we've already used 'ubi_num' as
an array index - bad thing to do if it is negative.
This patch moves the test earlier in the function and then moves
the indexing using that variable after the check. A bit safer :-)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8d2d4011f1 UBI: add more prints
I hit those situations and found out lack of print messages. Add more prints
when erase problems occur.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8bc2296196 UBI: fix sparse warnings
Fix "symbol shadows an earlier one" warnings. Although they are harmless
but it does not hurt to fix them and make sparse happy.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Florin Malita
dcec4c3bdc UBI: fix leak in ubi_scan_erase_peb
Coverity (1769) found the following problem: if the erase counter
overflow check triggers, ec_hdr is leaked.

Moving the allocation after the overflow check should take care of it.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-10-14 13:10:20 +03:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
d9b0744d6c [UBI] drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
To be able to convert kmalloc + memset(..., 1, ...) to kzalloc this patch
reverses the logic around 'buf'.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-08-01 11:04:05 +01:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Paul Mundt
add0b43ca6 UBI: fix compile warning
cdev.c whines in current git:

drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: In function `major_to_device':
drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:67: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Shut it up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:59:17 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
784c145444 UBI: fix error handling in erase worker
Do not switch to read-only mode in case of -EINTR and some
other obvious cases. Switch to RO mode only when we do not
know what is the error.

Reported-by: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:59:09 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
63b6c1ed56 UBI: fix comments
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:59:01 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
503990ebb2 UBI: remove unneeded error checks
Pointed to by viro.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:58:53 +03:00
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2db61c95c0 UBI: cleanup usage of try_module_get
The use of try_module_get(THIS_MODULE) in ubi_get_device_info does not
offer real protection against unexpected driver unloads, since we could
be preempted before try_modules_get gets executed. It is the caller who
should manipulate the refcounts. Besides, ubi_get_device_info is an
exported symbol which guarantees protection when accessed through
symbol_get.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:58:45 +03:00
Vinit Agnihotri
d08c3b78b8 UBI: fix overflow bug
I was experiencing overflows in multiplications for
volume->used_bytes in vmt.c & vtbl.c, while creating & resizing large volumes.

vol->used_bytes is long long however its 2 operands vol->used_ebs &
vol->usable_leb_size
are int. So their multiplication for larger values causes integer overflows.
Typecasting them solves the problem.

My machine & flash details:

64Bit dual-core AMD opteron, 1 GB RAM, linux 2.6.18.3.
mtd size = 6GB, volume size= 5GB, peb_size = 4MB.

heres patch which does the fix.

Signed-off-by: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:58:12 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2f3cdb55ee UBI: bugfix in max_sqnum calculation
Do not zero max_sqnum after a new volume has been found.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:58:02 +03:00
Brijesh Singh
76eafe479e UBI: bugfix in sqnum calculation
Hi,I came across problem of having two leb with same sequence no.This
happens when we continuously write one block again and again and reboot
machine before background thread erases those blocks.
The problem here was,when we find two blocks with same sequence no,we take
the higher one,but we were not updating max seq no,so next block may have
the same seqnum.
This patch solves this problem.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:57:52 +03:00
Brijesh Singh
2f176f7987 UBI: fix signed-unsigned multiplication
There is signed multiplication assigned to unsigned ei.addr in io.c.
This causes wrong addresses for big multiplication.This patch solves the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:57:34 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
84a9258062 UBI: fix bug in atomic_leb_change()
atomic_leb_change() is only allowed for dynamic volumes, so set
the volume type correctly.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:56:24 +03:00
Vinit Agnihotri
a6ded48e34 UBI: fix message
Increase UBI devices couter after the message, not before.

Signed-off-by: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:56:13 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b89044bfa0 UBI: fix debugging stuff
Do not check volumes which are currently in use because thay may be
in inconsistent state.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:56:05 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
94784d9164 UBI: bugfix in error path
When volume creation fails, we have to set ubi->volumes[vol_id]
back to NULL.

This patch also tweaks some debugging stuff.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:55:55 +03:00
Vignesh Babu
7753f1692f UBI: use is_power_of_2()
Replacing (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks
with is_power_of_2

Signed-off-by: Vignesh Babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:55:26 +03:00
Vinit Agnihotri
d7f0c4dc31 UBI: fix freeing ubi->vtbl while unloading
ubi->vtbl is allocated using vmalloc() in vtbl.c empty_create_lvol(),
but it is freed in build.c with kfree()

Signed-off-by: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:54:15 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a443db48e0 UBI: bugfix in ubi_leb_change()
Do not call 'ubi_wl_put_peb()' if the LEB was unmapped.

Reported-by: Gabor Loki <loki@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:57 +03:00
Christoph Hellwig
3261ebd7d4 UBI: kill homegrown endian macros
Kill UBI's homegrown endianess handling and replace it with
the standard kernel endianess handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:49 +03:00
Christoph Hellwig
bf07803a68 UBI: cleanup ioctl handling
- don't do access_ok + get/put user but use the proper macro
- remove useless checks

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
16d8cd7ce4 UBI: error path bugfix
No need to unlock the lock, this will be done at out_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:27 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
f800f09bf4 UBI: minor comma fix
Use coma at the the last elements of structure initializer.

Daniel Stone's explanation:

Because it turns:
-   .attr   = foo
+   .attr   = foo,
+   .bar    = baz

into:
+   .bar    = baz,

i.e., far less likely to screw up a merge.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:17 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
92ad8f3750 UBI: use vmalloc for large buffers
UBI allocates temporary buffers of PEB size, which may be 256KiB.
Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for such big temporary buffers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:08 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
79b510c0f2 UBI: add few more comments
Add few comments above ubi_scan_add_used() to explain why it is so
complex. Requested by Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:53:00 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
941dfb07ed UBI: set correct gluebi device size
In case of static volumes, make emulated MTD device size to
be equivalent to data size, rather then volume size.

Reported-by: John Smith <john@arrows.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:52:51 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4ab60a0d7c UBI: do not let to read too much
In case of static volumes it is prohibited to read more data
then available.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:52:42 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
78d87c95b8 UBI: fix error path in create_vtbl()
There were several bugs in volume table creation error path. Thanks to
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> and Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
for finding and analysing them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/3/274

This patch makes ubi_scan_add_to_list() static and renames it to
add_to_list(), just because it is not needed outside scan.c anymore.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:52:32 +03:00
Florin Malita
c4e90ec013 UBI: fix dereference after kfree
Coverity (CID 1614) spotted new_seb being dereferenced after kfree() in
create_vtbl's write_error path.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:52:22 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
341e1a0cf2 UBI: fix memory leak in checking code
Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-07-18 16:52:13 +03:00
Jeff Garzik
a6343afb6e drivers/*: mark variables with uninitialized_var()
Mark variables in drivers/* with uninitialized_var() if such a warning
appears, and analysis proves that the var is initialized properly on all
paths it is used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-17 16:23:19 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
2ab934b8af drivers/mtd/ubi/eba: minor cleanup: tighten scope of a local var
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-17 16:18:00 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a35afb830f Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d468a03002 UBI: remove unused variable
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-04-27 15:11:44 +03:00
Artem B. Bityutskiy
801c135ce7 UBI: Unsorted Block Images
UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single
flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides
a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling
across the whole flash device.

In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector
numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks.

More information may be found at
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html

Partitioning/Re-partitioning

  An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is
  limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be
  viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can
  be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the
  sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit.

  UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are
  read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums.

Bad eraseblocks handling

  UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical
  eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical
  eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this.

Scrubbing

  On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation,
  sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first
  they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate,
  correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub
  the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock
  and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of
  scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users.

Erase Counts

  UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees
  higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows
  for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are
  used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm
  itself is exchangeable.

Booting from NAND

  For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be
  capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND
  flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They
  usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This
  "initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to
  load and execute the next boot phase.

  Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the
  flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program
  loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become
  corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by
  storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume.

UBI volumes vs. static partitions

  UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions:

    * both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI
      volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions;
    * both support three basic operations - read, write, erase.

  But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional
  static MTD partitions:

    * there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI
      volumes, so the user should not care about this;
    * there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes.

  So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed
  restrictions.

Where can it be found?

  Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD
  gits.

What are the applications for?

  The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi
  files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain
  binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing
  step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content
  analysis after a system has crashed..

Who did UBI?

  The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas
  Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others
  were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem
  B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver
  Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem.
  Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on
  a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander
  Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements.

Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
2007-04-27 14:23:33 +03:00