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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c, branch v3.4.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>UBI: rename peb_buf1 to peb_buf</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:39:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2012-03-08T13:29:37+00:00</published>
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Now we have only one buffer so let's rename it to just 'peb_buf1'.

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Now we have only one buffer so let's rename it to just 'peb_buf1'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: reduce memory consumption</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T07:39:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josselin Costanzi</name>
<email>josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr</email>
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<published>2012-02-22T15:37:05+00:00</published>
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Remove the pre-allocated 'peb_buf2' buffer because we do not really need it.
The only reason UBI has it is to check that the data were written correctly.
But we do not have to have 2 buffers for this and waste RAM - we can just
compare CRC checksums instead. This reduces UBI memory consumption.

Artem bityutskiy: massaged the patch and commit message

Signed-off-by: Josselin Costanzi &lt;josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Remove the pre-allocated 'peb_buf2' buffer because we do not really need it.
The only reason UBI has it is to check that the data were written correctly.
But we do not have to have 2 buffers for this and waste RAM - we can just
compare CRC checksums instead. This reduces UBI memory consumption.

Artem bityutskiy: massaged the patch and commit message

Signed-off-by: Josselin Costanzi &lt;josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: introduce mtd_can_have_bb helper</title>
<updated>2012-01-09T18:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-02T11:48:54+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces new 'mtd_can_have_bb()' helper function which checks
whether the flash can have bad eraseblocks. Then it changes all the
direct 'mtd-&gt;block_isbad' use cases with 'mtd_can_have_bb()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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This patch introduces new 'mtd_can_have_bb()' helper function which checks
whether the flash can have bad eraseblocks. Then it changes all the
direct 'mtd-&gt;block_isbad' use cases with 'mtd_can_have_bb()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: fix oops in error path</title>
<updated>2011-06-01T08:23:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-18T15:08:05+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes an oops in the error path of 'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()'. If
anything after 'uif_init()' fails, we get an oops in 'cancel_pending()'. The
reason is that 'uif_close()' drops the last reference count for 'ubi-&gt;dev' and
whole 'struct ubi_device' is freed. And then
'ubi_wl_close()'-&gt;'cancel_pending()' tries to access the 'ubi' pointer and
problems begin.

Note, in 'ubi_detach_mtd_dev()' function we get a device reference to
work-around this issue. Do the same in the error path of
'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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This patch fixes an oops in the error path of 'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()'. If
anything after 'uif_init()' fails, we get an oops in 'cancel_pending()'. The
reason is that 'uif_close()' drops the last reference count for 'ubi-&gt;dev' and
whole 'struct ubi_device' is freed. And then
'ubi_wl_close()'-&gt;'cancel_pending()' tries to access the 'ubi' pointer and
problems begin.

Note, in 'ubi_detach_mtd_dev()' function we get a device reference to
work-around this issue. Do the same in the error path of
'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: use debugfs for the extra checks knobs</title>
<updated>2011-06-01T08:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-18T11:53:05+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces debugfs support to UBI. All the UBI stuff is kept in the
"ubi" debugfs directory, which contains per-UBI device "ubi/ubiX"
sub-directories, containing debugging files. This file also creates
"ubi/ubiX/chk_gen" and "ubi/ubiX/chk_io" knobs for switching general and I/O
extra checks on and off. And it removes the 'debug_chks' UBI module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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This patch introduces debugfs support to UBI. All the UBI stuff is kept in the
"ubi" debugfs directory, which contains per-UBI device "ubi/ubiX"
sub-directories, containing debugging files. This file also creates
"ubi/ubiX/chk_gen" and "ubi/ubiX/chk_io" knobs for switching general and I/O
extra checks on and off. And it removes the 'debug_chks' UBI module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-03-18T17:50:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-03-18T17:50:27+00:00</published>
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* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  UBIFS: clean-up commentaries
  UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM
  UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: do not check data crc by default
  UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu
  UBIFS: print max. index node size
  UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path
  UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery
  UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers
  UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field
  UBI: incorporate LEB offset information
  UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size
  UBI: provide LEB offset information
  UBI: incorporate maximum write size
  UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk
  UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files
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* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  UBIFS: clean-up commentaries
  UBIFS: save 128KiB or more RAM
  UBIFS: allocate orphans scan buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate lpt dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate ltab checking buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate scanning buffer on demand
  UBIFS: allocate dump buffer on demand
  UBIFS: do not check data crc by default
  UBIFS: simplify UBIFS Kconfig menu
  UBIFS: print max. index node size
  UBIFS: handle allocation failures in UBIFS write path
  UBIFS: use max_write_size during recovery
  UBIFS: use max_write_size for write-buffers
  UBIFS: introduce write-buffer size field
  UBI: incorporate LEB offset information
  UBIFS: incorporate maximum write size
  UBI: provide LEB offset information
  UBI: incorporate maximum write size
  UBIFS: fix LEB number in printk
  UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files
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<entry>
<title>UBI: make tests modes dynamic</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T11:50:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-15T08:30:40+00:00</published>
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Similarly to the debugging checks and message, make the test modes
be dynamically selected via the "debug_tsts" module parameter or
via the "/sys/module/ubi/parameters/debug_tsts" sysfs file. This
is consistent with UBIFS as well.

And now, since all the Kconfig knobs became dynamic, we can remove
the Kconfig.debug file completely.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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Similarly to the debugging checks and message, make the test modes
be dynamically selected via the "debug_tsts" module parameter or
via the "/sys/module/ubi/parameters/debug_tsts" sysfs file. This
is consistent with UBIFS as well.

And now, since all the Kconfig knobs became dynamic, we can remove
the Kconfig.debug file completely.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: kill debugging buffer</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T11:50:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-14T15:11:29+00:00</published>
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This patch kills the 'ubi-&gt;dbg_peb_buf' debugging buffer and the
associated mutex, because all users of this buffer are now gone.
We are killing this buffer because we are going to switch to
dynamic debugging control, just like in UBIFS, which means that
CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID will be removed. In this case we'd
end up always allocating 'ubi-&gt;dbg_peb_buf', which is rather large
(128KiB or more), and this would be wasteful. Thus, we are just
killing it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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This patch kills the 'ubi-&gt;dbg_peb_buf' debugging buffer and the
associated mutex, because all users of this buffer are now gone.
We are killing this buffer because we are going to switch to
dynamic debugging control, just like in UBIFS, which means that
CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID will be removed. In this case we'd
end up always allocating 'ubi-&gt;dbg_peb_buf', which is rather large
(128KiB or more), and this would be wasteful. Thus, we are just
killing it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: incorporate maximum write size</title>
<updated>2011-03-08T08:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-30T16:37:33+00:00</published>
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Incorporate MTD write buffer size into UBI device information
because UBIFS needs this field. UBI does not use it ATM, just
provides to upper layers in 'struct ubi_device_info'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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Incorporate MTD write buffer size into UBI device information
because UBIFS needs this field. UBI does not use it ATM, just
provides to upper layers in 'struct ubi_device_info'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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<title>UBI: add slab cache for ubi_scan_leb objects</title>
<updated>2011-02-06T17:19:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-31T15:54:14+00:00</published>
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During scanning UBI allocates one struct ubi_scan_leb object for each PEB,
so it can end up allocating thousands of them. Use slab cache to reduce
memory consumption for these 48-byte objects, because currently used
'kmalloc()' ends up allocating 64 bytes per object, instead of 48.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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During scanning UBI allocates one struct ubi_scan_leb object for each PEB,
so it can end up allocating thousands of them. Use slab cache to reduce
memory consumption for these 48-byte objects, because currently used
'kmalloc()' ends up allocating 64 bytes per object, instead of 48.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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