linux-toradex.git/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c, branch v4.10

treewide: remove redundant #include

2016-10-11T22:06:33+00:00

Kernel source files need not include  explicitly
because the top Makefile forces to include it with:

  -include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h

This commit removes explicit includes except the following:

  * arch/s390/include/asm/facilities_src.h
  * tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/kernel.h

These two are used for host programs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473656164-11929-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag '4.9/mtd-pairing-scheme' of github.com:linux-nand/linux

2016-10-09T03:56:54+00:00

Introduction of the MTD pairing scheme concept.

mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()

2016-09-28T20:00:45+00:00

If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device()
and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions
will never issue the registered callbacks.
Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down.

Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris

mtd: introduce the mtd_pairing_scheme concept

2016-09-15T14:47:56+00:00

MLC and TLC NAND devices are using NAND cells exposing more than one bit,
but instead of attaching all the bits in a given cell to a single NAND
page, each bit is usually attached to a different page. This concept is
called 'page pairing', and has significant impacts on the flash storage
usage.
The main problem showed by these devices is that interrupting a page
program operation may not only corrupt the page we are programming
but also the page it is paired with, hence the need to expose to MTD
users the pairing scheme information.

The pairing APIs allows one to query pairing information attached to a
given page (here called wunit), or the other way around (the wunit
pointed by pairing information).
It also provides several helpers to help the conversion between absolute
offsets and wunits, and query the number of pairing groups.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon 
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris

mtd: create an mtd_ooblayout_ops struct to ease ECC layout definition

2016-04-19T20:05:55+00:00

ECC layout definitions are currently exposed using the nand_ecclayout
struct which embeds oobfree and eccpos arrays with predefined size.
This approach was acceptable when NAND chips were providing relatively
small OOB regions, but MLC and TLC now provide OOB regions of several
hundreds of bytes, which implies a non negligible overhead for everybody
even those who only need to support legacy NANDs.

Create an mtd_ooblayout_ops interface providing the same functionality
(expose the ECC and oobfree layout) without the need for this huge
structure.

The mtd->ecclayout is now deprecated and should be replaced by the
equivalent mtd_ooblayout_ops. In the meantime we provide a wrapper around
the ->ecclayout field to ease migration to this new model.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon

mtd: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where appropriate

2016-04-19T20:05:53+00:00

Use the mtd_set_ecclayout() helper instead of directly assigning the
mtd->ecclayout field.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon

mtd: create an mtd_oobavail() helper and make use of it

2016-03-08T00:23:09+00:00

Currently, all MTD drivers/sublayers exposing an OOB area are
doing the same kind of test to extract the available OOB size
based on the mtd_info and mtd_oob_ops structures.
Move this common logic into an inline function and make use of it.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon 
Suggested-by: Priit Laes 
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris

mtd: partitions: support a cleanup callback for parsers

2015-12-09T22:57:44+00:00

If partition parsers need to clean up their resources, we shouldn't
assume that all memory will fit in a single kmalloc() that the caller
can kfree(). We should allow the parser to provide a proper cleanup
routine.

Note that this means we need to keep a hold on the parser's module for a
bit longer, and release it later with mtd_part_parser_put().

Alongside this, define a default callback that we'll automatically use
if the parser doesn't provide one, so we can still retain the old
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris 
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon

mtd: partitions: pass around 'mtd_partitions' wrapper struct

2015-12-09T18:22:09+00:00

For some of the core partitioning code, it helps to keep info about the
parsed partition (and who parsed them) together in one place.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris

mtd: partitions: remove kmemdup()

2015-12-09T18:22:06+00:00

The use of kmemdup() complicates the error handling a bit. We don't
actually need to allocate new memory, since this reference is treated as
const, and it is copied into new memory by the partition registration
code anyway. So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris 
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon