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2010-05-07UBI: misc comment fixesShinya Kuribayashi
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-07UBI: fix s/then/than/ typosShinya Kuribayashi
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-06UBI: init even if MTD device cannot be attached, if built into kernelMarc Kleine-Budde
UBI can be built into the kernel or be compiled as a kernel module. Further on the command line one can specify MTD devices to be attach to UBI while loading. In the current implementation the UBI driver refuses to load if one of the MTD devices cannot be attached. Consider: 1) UBI compiled into the kernel and 2) a MTD device specified on the command line and 3) this MTD device contains bogus data (for whatever reason). During init UBI tries to attach the MTD device is this fails the whole UBI subsystem isn't initialized. Later the userspace cannot attach any MTD to UBI because UBI isn't loaded. This patch keeps the current behaviour: if UBI is compiled as a module and a MTD device cannot be attached the UBI module cannot be loaded, but changes it for the UBI-is-built-into-the-kernel usecase. If UBI is builtin, a not attachable MTD device doen't stop UBI from initializing. This slightly modifies the behaviour if multiple MTD devices are specified on the command line. Now every MTD device is probed and, if possible, attached, i.e. a faulty MTD device doesn't stop the others from being attached. Artem: tweaked the patch Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-05-03UBI: remove reboot notifierKevin Cernekee
The UBI reboot notifier causes problems with hibernation. Move this functionality into the low-level MTD driver instead. Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 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 -> 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 <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-07driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/storeAndi Kleen
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring an own function for every piece of data. Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields and use that in the low level function. This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes and plain attributes. This will allow further cleanups in drivers. Full tree sweep converting all users. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-01UBI: add write checkingArtem Bityutskiy
Add an extra debugging check function which validates writes. After every write it reads the data back, compares it with the original data, and complains if they mismatch. Useful for debugging. No-op if extra debugging checks are disabled. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01UBI: simplify debugging return codesArtem Bityutskiy
UBI debugging functions were a little bit over-engineered and returned more error codes than needed, and the callers had to do useless checks. Simplify the return codes. Impact: only debugging code is affected, which means that for non-developers this is a no-op patch. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01UBI: fix attaching error pathArtem Bityutskiy
In the error path of 'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()' we have a tricky situation: we have to release things differently depending on at which point the failure happening. Namely, if @ubi->dev is not initialized, we have to free everything ourselves. But if it was, we should not free the @ubi object, because it will be freed in the 'dev_release()' function. And we did not get this situation right. This patch introduces additional argument to the 'uif_init()' function. On exit, this argument indicates whether the final 'free(ubi)' will happen in 'dev_release()' or not. So the caller always knows how to properly release the resources. Impact: all memory is now correctly released when UBI fails to attach an MTD device. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01UBI: support attaching by MTD character device nameArtem Bityutskiy
This patch adds a capability to attach MTD devices by their character device paths. For example, one can do: $ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd0 to attach /dev/mtd0. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-02-01UBI: mark few variables as __initdataArtem Bityutskiy
The @mtd_devs and @mtd_dev_param variables are used only during the initialization, and all functions that use the variables have the __init prefix. This means we can safely mark the variables as __initdata, which is a tiny optimization. Impact: tiny RAM consumption optimization when UBI is used as a kernel module. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-01-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6: UBI: fix volume creation input checking
2010-01-27UBI: fix volume creation input checkingMika Westerberg
Do not use an unchecked variable UBI_IOCMKVOL ioctl. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2010-01-18UBI: fix memory leak in update pathArtem Bityutskiy
When truncating an UBI volume, UBI should allocates a PEB-sized buffer but does not release it, which leads to memory leaks. This patch fixes the issue. Reported-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Tested-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-12UBI: add more checks to chdev openArtem Bityutskiy
When opening UBI volumes by their character device names, make sure we are opening character devices, not block devices or any other inode type. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-01-12UBI: initialise update markerPeter Horton
The in kernel copy of a volume's update marker is not initialised from the volume table. This means that volumes where an update was unfinnished will not be treated as "forbidden to use". This is basically that the update functionality was broken. Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-10Merge git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: UBIFS: fix return code in check_leaf UBI: flush wl before clearing update marker MAINTAINERS: change e-mail of Artem Bityutskiy UBIFS: remove manual O_SYNC handling UBIFS: support mounting of UBI volume character devices UBI: Add ubi_open_volume_path
2009-12-04UBI: flush wl before clearing update markerSebastian Andrzej Siewior
ubiupdatevol -t does the following: - ubi_start_update() - set_update_marker() - for all LEBs ubi_eba_unmap_leb() - clear_update_marker() - ubi_wl_flush() ubi_wl_flush() physically erases all PEB, once it returns all PEBs are empty. clear_update_marker() has the update marker written after return. If there is a power cut between the last two functions then the UBI volume has no longer the "update" marker set and may have some valid LEBs while some of them may be gone. If that volume in question happens to be a UBIFS volume, then mount will fail with |UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (255 but expected 6) |UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0 |Not a node, first 24 bytes: |00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff if there is at least one valid LEB and the wear-leveling worker managed to clear LEB 0. The patch waits for the wl worker to finish prior clearing the "update" marker on flash. The two new LEB which are scheduled for erasing after clear_update_marker() should not matter because they are only visible to UBI. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-24UBI: Add ubi_open_volume_pathCorentin Chary
Add an 'ubi_open_volume_path(path, mode)' function which works like 'open_bdev_exclusive(path, mode, ...)' where path is the special file representing the UBI volume, typically /dev/ubi0_0. This is needed to teach UBIFS being able to mount UBI character devices. [Comments and the patch were amended a bit by Artem] Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-11-09Kconfig: Remove useless and sometimes wrong commentsMichael Roth
Additionally, some excessive newlines removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-10-20UBI: fix check on unsigned longRoel Kluin
result is unsigned, the wrong check was used. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-10-20UBI: fix backward compatibilityArtem Bityutskiy
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 <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-09-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage() trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/ ...
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-08-14UBI: improve NOR flash erasure quirkArtem Bityutskiy
More testing of NOR flash against power cuts showed that sometimes eraseblocks may be unwritable, and we cannot really invalidate them before erasure. But in this case the eraseblock probably contains garbage anyway, and we do not have to invalidate the headers. This assumption might be not true, but this is at least what I have observed. So if we cannot invalidate the headers, we make sure that the PEB does not contain valid VID header. If this is true, everything is fine, otherwise we panic.
2009-08-14UBI: introduce flash dump helperArtem Bityutskiy
Useful for debugging problems, compiled in only if UBI debugging is enabled. This patch also makes the UBI writing function dump the flash if it fails to write. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14UBI: eliminate possible undefined behaviourPhil Carmody
The assignment to pos when rb is finally NULL is undefined behaviour. Upon seeing that assignment, GCC may assume that rb is not NULL, and the loop condition ``rb'' may be optimised away. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14UBI: print a warning if too many PEBs are corruptedArtem Bityutskiy
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 <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14UBI: amend NOR flash pre-erase quirkArtem Bityutskiy
In case of NOR flash, UBI zeroes EC and VID headers' magic, in order to detect interrupted erasures. It first zeroes out the EC magic, then VID magic. However, if a power cut happens in between, we'll end up with a corrupted EC header and a valid VID header, in which case UBI accepts the PEB, but prints a warning. This patch makes sure we first zero out the VID magic, then the EC magic, not vice versa. This is just a small amendment to prevent warning messages. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-08-14UBI: print a message if ECH is corrupted and VIDH is okArtem Bityutskiy
If the EC header is corrupted, but the VID header is OK, UBI accepts the PEB and treats it as "used". However, generally this should not happen. Print a warning if this happens. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-24UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbersAdrian Hunter
Fall back onto thinking everything's OK if either of the sequence numbers we are asked to compare is zero, which is what was used before sequence numbers were introduced. [ Artem: modified the patch to be applicable to upstream UBI, added big comment ] Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-24UBI: fix double free on error pathAdrian Hunter
If we fail in 'ubi_eba_init_scan()', we free 'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' in there, but also later free it in 'free_internal_volumes()'. Fix this by assigning NULL to 'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' after it is freed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-15UBI: fix bug in image sequence number handlingHolger Brunck
This patch fixes a bug in the image seq. number handling in the scanning level. The assignment of the image_seq was incorrect. Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-15UBI: gluebi: initialize ubi_num fieldArtem Bityutskiy
Do not forget to initialize 'gluebi->ubi_num' because otherwise it will stay 0 even for ubi1 device, and gluebi will open wrong UBI device when 'gluebi_get_device()' is called. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-08UBI: fix compilation warningsArtem Bityutskiy
The recent "UBI: fix NOR flash recovery" introduced compilation warnings which were immediately spotted by our linux-next keeper. This patch fixes them. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-07UBI: fix NOR flash recoveryArtem Bityutskiy
This commit fixes NOR flash recovery issues observed with Spansion S29GL512N NOR. When NOR erases, it first fills PEBs with zeroes, then sets all bytes to 0xFF. Filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. And when power is cut, this results in PEBs containing correct EC and VID headers but corrupted with zeros at the end. This confuses UBI and it mistakinly accepts these PEBs and associate them with LEBs. Fis this issue by zeroing EC and VID magics before erasing PEBs, to make UBI later refuse zem. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05UBI: nicify image sequence number handlingArtem Bityutskiy
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 <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05UBI: add image sequence number to EC headerAdrian Hunter
An image sequence number is added to the UBI erase-counter header to be able determine if the root file system contains a mixture of old and new images (because the flashing failed to complete). A change to nolo is also needed for this to take effect. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05UBI: remove bogus debugging checksArtem Bityutskiy
The 'paranoid_check_empty()' is bogus because, which is easilly seen on NOR flash, which has long erase cycles, and which may easilly end-up with half-erased eraseblocks. In this case the paranoid check fails. I is just wrong to assume that PEBs which do not have EC headers always contain all 0xFF. Such assumption should not be made on the I/O level, which is quite low. Thus, just kill the check. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-07-05UBI: add empty eraseblocks verificationArtem Bityutskiy
This patch adds code which makes sure eraseblocks contain all 0xFF bytes before starting using them. The verification is done only when debugging checks are enabled. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10UBI: add reboot notifierKevin Cernekee
Terminate the UBI background thread prior to restarting the system. [Artem: amended comments a little] Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd@gmail.com> Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10UBI: handle more error codesArtem Bityutskiy
The UBIFS WL worker may encounter read errors and there is logic which makes a decision whether we should do one of: 1. cancel the operation and move the PEB with the read errors to the 'erroneous' list; 2. switch to R/O mode. ATM, only -EIO errors trigger 1., other errors trigger 2. The idea is that if we know we encountered an I/O error, do 1. Otherwise, we do not know how to react, and do 2., just in case. E.g., if the underlying driver became crazy because of a bug, we do not want to harm any data, and switch to R/O mode. This patch does 2 things: 1. Makes sure reads from the source PEB always cause 1. This is more consistent with other reads which come from the upper layers and never cause R/O. 2. Teaches UBI to do 1. also on -EBADMSG, UBI_IO_BAD_VID_HDR, -ENOMEM, and -ETIMEOUT. But this is only when reading the target PEB. This preblems were hunted by Adrian Hunter. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10UBI: fix multiple spelling typosArtem Bityutskiy
Some of the typos were indicated by Adrian Hunter, some by 'aspell'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-10UBI: fix kmem_cache_free on error patchArtem Bityutskiy
'kmem_cache_free()' oopeses if NULL is passed, and there is one error-path place where UBI may call it with NULL object. This problem was pointed to by Adrian Hunter. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-09UBI: print amount of reserved PEBsArtem Bityutskiy
When marking a PEB as bad, print how many PEBs are left reserved. This is very useful information. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-08UBI: improve messages in the WL workerArtem Bityutskiy
Print not only the PEB number, but also the LEB number and volume id, which is very useful for bug hunting. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-03UBI: make gluebi a separate moduleDmitry Pervushin
[Artem: re-worked the patch: made it release resources when the module is unloaded, made it do module referencing, made it really independent on UBI, tested it with the UBI test-suite which can be found in ubi-2.6.git/tests/ubi-tests, re-named most of the funcs/variables to get rid of the "ubi" word and make names consistent.] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02UBI: remove built-in gluebiDmitry Pervushin
Remove built-in gluebi support. This is a preparation for a standalone glubi module support Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02UBI: add notification APIDmitry Pervushin
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 <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-06-02UBI: do not switch to R/O mode on read errorsArtem Bityutskiy
This patch improves UBI errors handling. ATM UBI switches to R/O mode when the WL worker fails to read the source PEB. This means that the upper layers (e.g., UBIFS) has no chances to unmap the erroneous PEB and fix the error. This patch changes this behaviour and makes UBI put PEBs like this into a separate RB-tree, thus preventing the WL worker from hitting the same read errors again and again. But there is a 10% limit on a maximum amount of PEBs like this. If there are too much of them, UBI switches to R/O mode. Additionally, this patch teaches UBI not to panic and switch to R/O mode if after a PEB has been copied, the target LEB cannot be read back. Instead, now UBI cancels the operation and schedules the target PEB for torturing. The error paths has been tested by ingecting errors into 'ubi_eba_copy_leb()'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>