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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c, branch v3.4.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mtd: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE where needed</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:31:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-10T16:43:28+00:00</published>
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These two common macros will be no longer present everywhere.
Call out the include needs of them explicitly where required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These two common macros will be no longer present everywhere.
Call out the include needs of them explicitly where required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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>
<entry>
<title>UBI: do not compare array with NULL</title>
<updated>2011-04-05T08:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-25T16:48:59+00:00</published>
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Coverity spotted that UBI debugging code tries to compare
an array and NULL, which obviously makes little sense. Kill
this check.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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Coverity spotted that UBI debugging code tries to compare
an array and NULL, which obviously makes little sense. Kill
this check.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: make self-checks dynamic</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T11:50:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-14T16:17:40+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a possibility to dynamically switch UBI self-checks
on and off, instead of toggling them compile-time from the configuration
menu. This is much more flexible, and consistent with UBIFS, and this
also simplifies UBI Kconfig menu and the code.

This patch introduces two levels of self-checks - general, which
includes all self-checks which are relatively fast, and I/O, which
includes write-verify checks and erase-verify checks, which are
relatively slow and involve flash I/O.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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This patch adds a possibility to dynamically switch UBI self-checks
on and off, instead of toggling them compile-time from the configuration
menu. This is much more flexible, and consistent with UBIFS, and this
also simplifies UBI Kconfig menu and the code.

This patch introduces two levels of self-checks - general, which
includes all self-checks which are relatively fast, and I/O, which
includes write-verify checks and erase-verify checks, which are
relatively slow and involve flash I/O.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: preserve corrupted PEBs</title>
<updated>2010-10-19T14:19:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-03T20:08:15+00:00</published>
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Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature
of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption.
The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy
potentially important data.

With this patch, during scanning, when UBI hits a PEB with corrupted VID
header, it checks whether this PEB contains only 0xFF data. If yes, it is
safe to erase this PEB and it is put to the 'erase' list. If not, this may
be important data and it is better to avoid erasing this PEB. Instead,
UBI puts it to the corr list and moves out of the pool of available PEB.
IOW, UBI preserves this PEB.

Such corrupted PEB lessen the amount of available PEBs. So the more of them
we accumulate, the less PEBs are available. The maximum amount of non-power
cut corrupted PEBs is 8.

This patch is a response to UBIFS problem where reporter
(Matthew L. Creech &lt;mlcreech@gmail.com&gt;) observes that UBIFS index points
to an unmapped LEB. The theory is that corresponding PEB somehow got
corrupted and UBI wiped it. This patch (actually a series of patches)
tries to make sure such PEBs are preserved - this would make it is easier
to analyze the corruption.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature
of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption.
The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy
potentially important data.

With this patch, during scanning, when UBI hits a PEB with corrupted VID
header, it checks whether this PEB contains only 0xFF data. If yes, it is
safe to erase this PEB and it is put to the 'erase' list. If not, this may
be important data and it is better to avoid erasing this PEB. Instead,
UBI puts it to the corr list and moves out of the pool of available PEB.
IOW, UBI preserves this PEB.

Such corrupted PEB lessen the amount of available PEBs. So the more of them
we accumulate, the less PEBs are available. The maximum amount of non-power
cut corrupted PEBs is 8.

This patch is a response to UBIFS problem where reporter
(Matthew L. Creech &lt;mlcreech@gmail.com&gt;) observes that UBIFS index points
to an unmapped LEB. The theory is that corresponding PEB somehow got
corrupted and UBI wiped it. This patch (actually a series of patches)
tries to make sure such PEBs are preserved - this would make it is easier
to analyze the corruption.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: remove built-in gluebi</title>
<updated>2009-06-02T10:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Pervushin</name>
<email>dpervushin@embeddedalley.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-29T15:29:44+00:00</published>
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Remove built-in gluebi support. This is a preparation for a
standalone glubi module support

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin &lt;dpervushin@embeddedalley.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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Remove built-in gluebi support. This is a preparation for a
standalone glubi module support

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin &lt;dpervushin@embeddedalley.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: add notification API</title>
<updated>2009-06-02T10:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Pervushin</name>
<email>dpervushin@embeddedalley.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-29T15:29:38+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;dpervushin@embeddedalley.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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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 &lt;dpervushin@embeddedalley.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: do not panic if volume check fails</title>
<updated>2009-05-18T09:28:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-13T11:05:24+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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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 &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: add dump_stack in checking code</title>
<updated>2009-05-18T09:28:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-12T17:29:15+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
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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 &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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