This patch provides a possibility to set the "maximum expected number of
bad blocks per 1024 blocks" (max_beb_per1024) for each mtd device using
the UBI_IOCATT ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This patch provides the possibility to adjust the "maximum expected number of
bad blocks per 1024 blocks" (max_beb_per1024) for each mtd device.
The majority of NAND devices have their max_beb_per1024 equal to 20, but
sometimes it's more.
Now, we can adjust that via a kernel parameter:
ubi.mtd=<name|num|path>[,<vid_hdr_offs>[,max_beb_per1024]]
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
max_beb_per1024 shouldn't be negative, and a 0 value will be treated as
the default value. For the upper bound, 768/1024 should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This patch prepare the way for the addition of max_beb_per1024 module
parameter. There's no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
No functional changes here, just to prepare for next patch.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
On NAND flash devices, UBI reserves some physical erase blocks (PEB) for
bad block handling. Today, the number of reserved PEB can only be set as a
percentage of the total number of PEB in each MTD partition. For example, for a
NAND flash with 128KiB PEB, 2 MTD partition of 20MiB (mtd0) and 100MiB (mtd1)
and 2% reserved PEB:
- the UBI device on mtd0 will have 2 PEB reserved
- the UBI device on mtd1 will have 16 PEB reserved
The problem with this behaviour is that NAND flash manufacturers give a
minimum number of valid block (NVB) during the endurance life of the
device, e.g.:
Parameter Symbol Min Max Unit Notes
--------------------------------------------------------------
Valid block number NVB 1004 1024 Blocks 1
From this number we can deduce the maximum number of bad PEB that a device will
contain during its endurance life: a 128MiB NAND flash (1024 PEB) will not have
less than 20 bad blocks during the flash endurance life.
But the manufacturer doesn't tell where those bad block will appear. He doesn't
say either if they will be equally disposed on the whole device (and I'm pretty
sure they won't). So, according to the datasheets, we should reserve the
maximum number of bad PEB for each UBI device (worst case scenario: 20 bad
blocks appears on the smallest MTD partition).
So this patch make UBI use the whole MTD device size to calculate the maximum
bad expected eraseblocks.
The Kconfig option is in per1024 blocks, thus it can have a default value of 20
which is *very* common for NAND devices.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_RESERVE and MIN_RESEVED_PEBS are no longer used,
since the amount of reserved eraseblocks for bad PEB handling is now
derived from 'ubi->bad_peb_limit' (ubi's maximum expected bad
eraseblocks).
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The existing mechanism of reserving PEBs for bad PEB handling has two
flaws:
- It is calculated as a percentage of good PEBs instead of total PEBs.
- There's no limit on the amount of PEBs UBI reserves for future bad
eraseblock handling.
This patch changes the mechanism to overcome these flaws.
The desired level of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling (beb_rsvd_level)
is set to the maximum expected bad eraseblocks (bad_peb_limit) minus the
existing number of bad eraseblocks (bad_peb_count).
The actual amount of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling is usually set
to the desired level (but in some circumstances may be lower than the
desired level, e.g. when attaching to a device that has too few
available PEBs to satisfy the desired level).
In the case where the device has too many bad PEBs (above the expected
limit), then the desired level, and the actual amount of PEBs reserved
are set to zero. No PEBs will be set aside for future bad eraseblock
handling - even if some PEBs are made available (e.g. by shrinking a
volume).
If another PEB goes bad, and there are available PEBs, then the
eraseblock will be marked bad (consuming one available PEB). But if
there are no available PEBs, ubi will go into readonly mode.
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Introduce 'ubi->bad_peb_limit', which specifies an upper limit of PEBs
UBI expects to go bad. Currently, it is initialized to a fixed percentage
of total PEBs in the UBI device (configurable via CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT).
The 'bad_peb_limit' is intended to be used for calculating the amount of PEBs
UBI needs to reserve for bad eraseblock handling.
Artem: minor amendments.
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Currently, there are several locations where an attempt to reserve more
PEBs for bad PEB handling is made, with the same code being duplicated.
Harmonize it by introducing 'ubi_update_reserved()'.
Also, improve the debug message issued, making it more descriptive.
Artem: amended the patch a little.
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The function name within the comment was not aligned with the actual
function name.
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The actual value (1%) is too low for actual NAND devices, a huge
majority of device has 2% maximum bad blocks (SLC or MLC).
(Actually it's 20 blocks on a 1024 blocks device, 40/2048...)
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Commit "e9b4cf2 UBI: fix debugfs-less systems support" fixed one
regression but introduced a different regression - the debugfs is now always
compiled out. Root cause: IS_ENABLED() arguments should be used with the
CONFIG_* prefix.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Commit "62f38455 UBI: modify ubi_wl_flush function to clear work queue for a lnum"
takes the 'work_sem' semaphore in write mode for the entire loop, which is not
very good because it will block other workers for potentially long time. We do
not need to have it in write mode - read mode is enough, and we do not need to
hole it over the entire loop. So this patch turns changes the locking: takes
'work_sem' in read mode and pushes it down to the loop.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Commit "aa44d1d UBI: remove Kconfig debugging option" broke UBI and it
refuses to initialize if debugfs (CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) is disabled. I incorrectly
assumed that debugfs files creation function will return success if debugfs
is disabled, but they actually return -ENODEV. This patch fixes the issue.
Reported-by: Paul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Paul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com>
This patch modifies ubi_wl_flush to force the erasure of
particular volume id / logical eraseblock number pairs. Previous functionality
is preserved when passing UBI_ALL for both values. The locations where ubi_wl_flush
were called are appropriately changed: ubi_leb_erase only flushes for the
erased LEB, and ubi_create_volume forces only flushing for its volume id.
External code can call this new feature via the new function ubi_flush() added
to kapi.c, which simply passes through to ubi_wl_flush().
This was tested by disabling the call to do_work in ubi thread, which results
in the work queue remaining unless explicitly called to remove. UBIFS was
changed to call ubifs_leb_change 50 times for four different LEBs. Then the
new function was called to clear the queue: passing wrong volume ids / lnum,
correct ones, and finally UBI_ALL for both to ensure it was finally all
cleard. The work queue was dumped each time and the selective removal
of the particular LEB numbers was observed. Extra checks were enabled and
ubifs's integck was also run. Finally, the drive was repeatedly filled and
emptied to ensure that the queue was cleared normally.
Artem: amended the patch.
Signed-off-by: Joel Reardon <reardonj@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Joel will use it in his 'ubi_flush()' extention to specify all eraseblocks.
Also amend the comment for UBI_UNKNOWN - it is used beyond attaching info
structure now.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This is part of a multipart patch to allow UBI to force the erasure of
particular logical eraseblock numbers. In this patch, the volume id and LEB
number are added to ubi_work data structure, and both are also passed as a
parameter to schedule erase to set it appropriately. Whenever ubi_wl_put_peb
is called, the lnum is also passed to be forwarded to schedule erase. Later,
a new ubi_sync_lnum will be added to execute immediately all work related to
that lnum.
This was tested by outputting the vol_id and lnum during the schedule of
erasure. The ubi thread was disabled and two ubifs drives on separate
partitions repeated changed a small number of LEBs. The ubi module was readded,
and all the erased LEBs, corresponding to the volumes, were added to the
schedule erase queue.
Artem: minor tweaks
Signed-off-by: Joel Reardon <reardonj@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds the volume id to struct ubi_ainf_peb when scanning the LEBs at
startup. PEBs now added to the erase queue will know their original LEB number
and volume id, if available, and will be -1 otherwise (for instance, if the VID
header is unreadable).
This was tested by creating an ubi device with 3 volumes and disabiling the
ubi_thread's do_work functionality. The different ubi volumes were formatted
to ubifs and had files created and erased. The ubi modules was reloaded and
the list of LEB's added to the erased list was outputted, confirming the
volume ids and LEB numbers were appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Joel Reardon <reardonj@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Explicitly provide the first internal volume ID value in the comment for
UBI_INTERNAL_VOL_START. This allows developers who, when adding features
related to volume ids and observe unexpected very large volume ids, to grep
for the observed value in the source code and find out immediately that it is
expected behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Joel Reardon <reardonj@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Finally, rename the scan.c file. Now adding fastmap support won't look that
hacky anymore.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This file is small and it does not make sense to have it separate from where
everything else lives, so merge it with ubi.h.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Rename the constant to UBI_UNKNOWN, for the same reason that we are going
to add nother attaching method and re-use the same data structures, so the
"SCAN" in the name becomes incorrect. I've also removed the "_EC" part because
Joel is going to use this constant for other fields in the attaching info data
structures.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Rename the 'attach_by_scanning()' function to 'ubi_attach()' and move it to
scan.c. Richard will plug his fastmap stuff there.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
We have a couple of initialization funcntionsn left which have "_scan" suffic -
rename them:
ubi_eba_init_scan() -> ubi_eba_init()
ubi_wl_init_scan() -> ubi_wl_init()
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This patch amends commentaries in scan.[ch] to match the new logic. Reminder -
we did the restructuring to prepare the code for adding the fastmap. This patch
also renames a couple of functions - it was too difficult to separate out that
change and I decided that it is not too bad to have it in the same patch with
commentaries changes.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The 'ubi_scan_erase_peb()' is used only in scan.c so can be static. Also
re-name it to 'early_erase_peb()' because we tend to use "ubi_" prefix only for
non-static fuction and also because the new name is better.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
After re-naming the 'struct ubi_scan_volume' we should adjust all variables
named 'sv' to something else, because 'sv' stands for "scanning volume".
Let's rename it to 'av' which stands for "attaching volume" which is
a bit more consistent and has the same length, which makes re-naming easy.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
After re-naming the 'struct ubi_scan_info' we should adjust all variables
named 'si' to something else, because 'si' stands for "scanning info".
Let's rename it to 'ai' which stands for "attaching info" which is
a bit more consistent and has the same length, which makes re-naming easy.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
After re-naming the 'struct ubi_scan_leb' we should adjust all variables
named 'seb' to something else, because 'seb' stands for "scanning eraseblock".
Let's rename it to 'aeb' which stands for "attaching eraseblock" which is
a bit more consistend and has the same length.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Now some commentaries are out-of-date, after we re-named the data
structures - amend them.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Rename 'struct ubi_scan_info' to 'struct ubi_attach_info'. This is part
of the code re-structuring I am trying to do in order to add fastmap
in a more logical way. Fastmap can share a lot with scanning, including
the attach-time data structures, which all now have "scan" word in the
name. Let's get rid of this word.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Rename 'struct ubi_scan_volume' to 'struct ubi_ainf_volume'. This is part
of the code re-structuring I am trying to do in order to add fastmap
in a more logical way. Fastmap can share a lot with scanning, including
the attach-time data structures, which all now have "scan" word in the
name. Let's get rid of this word and use "ainf" instead which stands
for "attach information". It has the same length as "scan" so re-naming
is trivial.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Rename 'struct ubi_scan_leb' to 'struct ubi_ainf_leb'. This is part
of the code re-structuring I am trying to do in order to add fastmap
in a more logical way. Fastmap can share a lot with scanning, including
the attach-time data structures, which all now have "scan" word in the
name. Let's get rid of this word and use "ainf" instead which stands
for "attach information". It has the same length as "scan" so re-naming
is trivial.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
This patch removes the 'dbg_err()' macro and we now use 'ubi_err' instead.
The idea of 'dbg_err()' was to compile out some error message to make the
binary a bit smaller - but I think it was a bad idea.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
We have the "sefl-check" feature in UBI, but for historical reasons many
corresponding functions and commentaries in the code use term "paranoid check"
instead. Let's clean this up and use "self-check" everywhere.
This patch renames functions, amends messages and kills several redundant
debugging messages.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
We have the "sefl-check" feature in UBI, but for historical reasons many
corresponding functions and commentaries in the code use term "paranoid check"
instead. Let's clean this up and use "self-check" everywhere.
This patch renames functions, amends comments and messages. It touches only the
io.c file.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
