linux-toradex.git/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h, branch v3.4.36

UBI: add slab cache for ubi_scan_leb objects

2011-02-06T17:19:23+00:00

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

UBI: remember copy_flag while scanning

2010-10-21T08:20:36+00:00

While scanning the flash we read all VID headers and store some important
information in 'struct ubi_scan_leb'. Store also the 'copy_flag' value there
as it is needed when comparing LEBs. We do not increase memory consumption
because this is just one bit and we have plenty of spare bits in
'struct ubi_scan_leb' (sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb) is 48 both with and
without this patch).

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: do not put eraseblocks to the corrupted list unnecessarily

2010-10-19T14:19:57+00:00

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

UBI: rename IO error code

2010-10-19T14:19:56+00:00

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

UBI: introduce eraseblock counter variables

2010-06-04T08:30:43+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

UBI: fix backward compatibility

2009-10-20T07:13:04+00:00

Commit 32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641 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

UBI: print a warning if too many PEBs are corrupted

2009-08-14T17:01:36+00:00

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

UBI: nicify image sequence number handling

2009-07-05T15:47:08+00:00

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

UBI: remove pre-sqnum images support

2008-07-24T10:36:09+00:00

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

UBI: amend commentaries

2008-07-24T10:32:56+00:00

Hch asked not to use "unit" for sub-systems, let it be so.
Also some other commentaries modifications.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy