Currently UBI maintains 2 lists of PEBs during scanning:
1. 'erase' list - PEBs which have no corruptions but should be erased
2. 'corr' list - PEBs which have some corruptions and should be erased
But we do not really need 2 lists for PEBs which should be erased after
scanning is done - this is redundant. So this patch makes sure all PEBs
which are corrupted are moved to the head of the 'erase' list. We add
them to the head to make sure they are erased first and we get rid of
corruption ASAP.
However, we do not remove the 'corr' list and realted functions, because
the plan is to use this list for other purposes. Namely, we plan to
put eraseblocks with corruption which does not look like it was caused
by unclean power cut. Then we'll preserve thes PEBs in order to avoid
killing potentially valuable user data.
This patch also amends PEBs accounting, because it was closely tight to
the 'erase'/'corr' lists separation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch introduces 'add_corrupted()' function and separates out 'corr' list
manipulation from the common 'add_to_list()' function. This is just a
preparation for further changes - this patch does not change functionality.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch improves readability and simplifies scanning code by changing a
long cascade of 'if' statements to a switch statement. This should presumably
be a little faster as well.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Rename local variable 'ec_corr' into 'ec_err' to make the code a little bit
more readable. 'ec_err' is more appropriate because it sounds more like 'error
when EC was read' and it looks more logical because we use it together with
'err'. Just a minor nicification which should improve the rather complex
scanning code.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently UBI has one small flaw - when we read EC or VID header, but find only
0xFF bytes, we return UBI_IO_FF and do not report whether we had bit-flips or
not. In case of the VID header, the scanning code adds this PEB to the free list,
even though there were bit-flips.
Imagine the following situation: we start writing VID header to a PEB and have a
power cut, so the PEB becomes unstable. When we scan and read the PEB, we get
a bit-flip. Currently, UBI would just ignore this and treat the PEB as free. This
patch changes UBI behavior and now UBI will schedule this PEB for erasure.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'UBI_IO_PEB_EMPTY' and 'UBI_IO_PEB_FREE' are essentially the same
and mean that there are only 0xFF bytes instead of headers. Simplify
UBI a little by turning them into a single 'UBI_IO_FF' error code.
Also, stop maintaining commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()' which are
almost identical to commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_ec_hdr()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Rename UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_READ into UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_EBADMSG which is presumably more
self-documenting and readable. Indeed, the '_READ' suffix does not tell much and
even confuses, while '_EBADMSG' tells about uncorrectable ECC error, because we
use -EBADMSG all over the place to represent ECC errors.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cleanup the Kconfig for UBI by using menuconfig to enable/disable the entire
driver. Remove the dependency checks for MTD_UBI and MTD_UBI_DEBUG by
wrapping the options in if/endif blocks and remove any redundant checks.
Remove all default n since that is the Kconfig default. Change menu "Additional
UBI debugging messages" into a comment to remove one menu level.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
When an erroneous PEB is scheduling for scrubbing, we end up with the
following oops:
[<c0162404>] (prot_queue_del+0x0/0x50) from [<c01635b4>] (ubi_wl_scrub_peb+0xec/0x13c)
[<c01634c8>] (ubi_wl_scrub_peb+0x0/0x13c) from [<c01603bc>] (ubi_eba_read_leb+0x200/0x428)
[<c01601bc>] (ubi_eba_read_leb+0x0/0x428) from [<c015e3c0>] (ubi_leb_read+0xe8/0x138)
[<c015e2d8>] (ubi_leb_read+0x0/0x138) from [<c00d6918>] (ubifs_start_scan+0x7c/0xf4)
[<c00d689c>] (ubifs_start_scan+0x0/0xf4) from [<c00e3650>] (ubifs_recover_leb+0x3c/0x730)
[<c00e3614>] (ubifs_recover_leb+0x0/0x730) from [<c00e444c>] (ubifs_recover_log_leb+0xc8/0x2dc)
[<c00e4384>] (ubifs_recover_log_leb+0x0/0x2dc) from [<c00d7c20>] (ubifs_replay_journal+0xb90/0x13a4)
[<c00d7090>] (ubifs_replay_journal+0x0/0x13a4) from [<c00cdd68>] (ubifs_fill_super+0xb84/0x1054)
[<c00cd1e4>] (ubifs_fill_super+0x0/0x1054) from [<c00ced04>] (ubifs_get_sb+0xc4/0x2ac)
[<c00cec40>] (ubifs_get_sb+0x0/0x2ac) from [<c007f04c>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x58/0x94)
[<c007eff4>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0x94) from [<c007f0e8>] (do_kern_mount+0x40/0xe8)
[<c007f0a8>] (do_kern_mount+0x0/0xe8) from [<c0095628>] (do_new_mount+0x68/0x8c)
[<c00955c0>] (do_new_mount+0x0/0x8c) from [<c00957a8>] (do_mount+0x15c/0x1b8)
[<c009564c>] (do_mount+0x0/0x1b8) from [<c0095890>] (sys_mount+0x8c/0xd4)
[<c0095804>] (sys_mount+0x0/0xd4) from [<c0023c00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
The problem is that 'ubi_wl_scrub_peb()' does not expect that PEBs may
be in the erroneous tree, which is a bug. This patch fixes the bug
and adds corresponding check to 'ubi_wl_scrub_peb()'. Now it will simply
ignore erroneous PEBs, instead of causing an oops.
Reported-by: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Commit 0798cea8c2 "UBI: improve corrupted flash handling"
broke delet-compatible volumes handling - it introduced a limit of 8 eraseblocks which
may be corrupted. And delete-compatible eraseblocks are added to the "corrupted" list,
so if we'd have a large delete-compatible volume, UBI would refuse it.
The fix is to add delete-compatible volumes to the erase list instead. Indeed, they are
corrupted, we just have to erase them.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
list_for_each_entry uses its first argument to move from one element to the
next, so modifying it can break the iteration. The variable re1 is already
used within the loop as a temporary variable, and is not live here.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
iterator name list_for_each_entry;
expression x,E;
position p1,p2;
@@
list_for_each_entry@p1(x,...) { <... x =@p2 E ...> }
@@
expression x,E;
position r.p1,r.p2;
statement S;
@@
*x =@p2 E
...
list_for_each_entry@p1(x,...) S
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently, when UBI attaches an MTD device and cannot reserve all 1% (by
default) of PEBs for bad eraseblocks handling, it prints a warning. However,
Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com> is not very happy to see this warning,
because he did reserve enough of PEB at the beginning, but with time some
PEBs became bad. The warning is not necessary in this case.
This patch makes UBI print the warning
o if this is a new image
o of this is used image and the amount of reserved PEBs is only 10% (or less)
of the size of the reserved PEB pool.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently UBI prints
UBI: corrupted PEBs will be formatted
even if there are not corrupted PEBs. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
Fix the followong compilation warnings introduced by commit
095751a6e0838a712393a74eb0b7b6559dbdbe81:
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
1a49af2ca019dcb4614c32f832bbcb814b61409c:
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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
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>
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
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
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>
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>
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>
* '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/
...
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
'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>
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>
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>
[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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Various minor improvements to the debugging messages which
I found useful while hunting problems.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* 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}
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
'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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
No functional changes, just tweak comments to make kernel-doc
work fine and stop complaining.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
__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>
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>
(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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
atomic_leb_change() is only allowed for dynamic volumes, so set
the volume type correctly.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
- 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Artem Bityutskiy