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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c, branch v4.9.120</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>lightnvm: fix lun offset calculation for mark blk</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-07-07T07:54:21+00:00</published>
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The gen_mark_blk_bad function marks the wrong block when a block is on
a different channel. Fix the index calculation, so that it updates the
correct block.

Reported-by: Javier Gonzalez &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The gen_mark_blk_bad function marks the wrong block when a block is on
a different channel. Fix the index calculation, so that it updates the
correct block.

Reported-by: Javier Gonzalez &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: remove _unlocked variant of [get/put]_blk</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
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<published>2016-07-07T07:54:19+00:00</published>
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The [get/put]_blk API enables targets to get ownership of blocks at
runtime. This information is currently not recorded on disk, and the
information is therefore lost on power failure. To restore the
metadata, the [get/put]_blk must persist its metadata. In that case,
we need to control the outer lock, so that we can disable them while
updating the on-disk metadata. Fortunately, the _unlocked versions can
be removed, which allows us to move the lock into the [get/put]_blk
functions.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The [get/put]_blk API enables targets to get ownership of blocks at
runtime. This information is currently not recorded on disk, and the
information is therefore lost on power failure. To restore the
metadata, the [get/put]_blk must persist its metadata. In that case,
we need to control the outer lock, so that we can disable them while
updating the on-disk metadata. Fortunately, the _unlocked versions can
be removed, which allows us to move the lock into the [get/put]_blk
functions.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: move target mgmt into media mgr</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-07T07:54:16+00:00</published>
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To enable persistent block management to easily control creation and
removal of targets, we move target management into the media
manager. The LightNVM core continues to maintain which target types are
registered, while the media manager now keeps track of its initialized
targets.

Two new callbacks for the media manager are introduced. create_tgt and
remove_tgt. Note that remove_tgt returns 0 on successfully removing a
target, and returns 1 if the target was not found.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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To enable persistent block management to easily control creation and
removal of targets, we move target management into the media
manager. The LightNVM core continues to maintain which target types are
registered, while the media manager now keeps track of its initialized
targets.

Two new callbacks for the media manager are introduced. create_tgt and
remove_tgt. Note that remove_tgt returns 0 on successfully removing a
target, and returns 1 if the target was not found.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: rename gennvm and update description</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-07T07:54:15+00:00</published>
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The generic manager should be called the general media manager, and
instead of using the rather long name of "gennvm" in front of each data
structures, use "gen" instead to shorten it. Update the description of
the media manager as well to make the media manager purpose clearer.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The generic manager should be called the general media manager, and
instead of using the rather long name of "gennvm" in front of each data
structures, use "gen" instead to shorten it. Update the description of
the media manager as well to make the media manager purpose clearer.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: remove open/close statistics for gennvm</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-07T07:54:14+00:00</published>
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The responsibility of the media manager is not to keep track of
open/closed blocks. This is better maintained within a target,
that already manages this information on writes.

Remove the statistics and merge the states NVM_BLK_ST_OPEN and
NVM_BLK_ST_CLOSED.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The responsibility of the media manager is not to keep track of
open/closed blocks. This is better maintained within a target,
that already manages this information on writes.

Remove the statistics and merge the states NVM_BLK_ST_OPEN and
NVM_BLK_ST_CLOSED.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: rename nr_pages to nr_ppas on nvm_rq</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T18:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Javier González</name>
<email>jg@lightnvm.io</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T18:03:20+00:00</published>
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The number of ppas contained on a request is not necessarily the number
of pages that it maps to neither on the target nor on the device side.
In order to avoid confusion, rename nr_pages to nr_ppas since it is what
the variable actually contains.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The number of ppas contained on a request is not necessarily the number
of pages that it maps to neither on the target nor on the device side.
In order to avoid confusion, rename nr_pages to nr_ppas since it is what
the variable actually contains.

Signed-off-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: expose gennvm_mark_blk to targets</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T18:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T18:03:18+00:00</published>
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Targets can update a block state when having a reference to an
in-memory virtual block. In the case that a target does not keep the
block metadata in memory, it does not have a way to update this
structure.

Therefore, expose gennvm_mark_blk() through the media managers
-&gt;mark_blk() callback and let targets update the state structure through
this callback.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Targets can update a block state when having a reference to an
in-memory virtual block. In the case that a target does not keep the
block metadata in memory, it does not have a way to update this
structure.

Therefore, expose gennvm_mark_blk() through the media managers
-&gt;mark_blk() callback and let targets update the state structure through
this callback.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: fix out of bound ppa lun id on bb tbl</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T18:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T18:03:10+00:00</published>
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The ppa configured for retrieving the bad block table uses the internal
lun id to setup the get bad block ppa. This increases monotonically
with the number luns available. When configuring a ppa, the channel and
lun must be specified separately, leading to an out of bound memory
access in gennvm_block_bb when lun id goes beyond the luns available
within a channel.

Additional, remove out of bound check in gennvm_block_bb(), as it was a
buggy to begin with.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The ppa configured for retrieving the bad block table uses the internal
lun id to setup the get bad block ppa. This increases monotonically
with the number luns available. When configuring a ppa, the channel and
lun must be specified separately, leading to an out of bound memory
access in gennvm_block_bb when lun id goes beyond the luns available
within a channel.

Additional, remove out of bound check in gennvm_block_bb(), as it was a
buggy to begin with.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lightnvm: move responsibility for bad blk mgmt to target</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T18:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T18:03:08+00:00</published>
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We move the responsibility of managing the persistent bad block table to
the target. The target may choose to mark a block bad or retry writing
to it. Never the less, it should be the target that makes the decision
and not the media manager.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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We move the responsibility of managing the persistent bad block table to
the target. The target may choose to mark a block bad or retry writing
to it. Never the less, it should be the target that makes the decision
and not the media manager.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>lightnvm: refactor device ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl()</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T18:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matias Bjørling</name>
<email>m@bjorling.me</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T18:03:05+00:00</published>
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The device ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl() takes a callback, that allows the caller
to use its own callback function to update its data structures in the
returning function.

This makes it difficult to send parameters to the callback, and usually
is circumvented by small private structures, that both carry the callers
state and any flags needed to fulfill the update.

Refactor ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl() to fill a data buffer with the status of the
blocks returned, and let the user call the callback function manually.
That will provide the necessary flags and data structures and simplify
the logic around ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl().

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The device ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl() takes a callback, that allows the caller
to use its own callback function to update its data structures in the
returning function.

This makes it difficult to send parameters to the callback, and usually
is circumvented by small private structures, that both carry the callers
state and any flags needed to fulfill the update.

Refactor ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl() to fill a data buffer with the status of the
blocks returned, and let the user call the callback function manually.
That will provide the necessary flags and data structures and simplify
the logic around ops-&gt;get_bb_tbl().

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling &lt;m@bjorling.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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