History log of /linux-master/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# ac085cfe 28-Aug-2023 Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>

ubi: fastmap: Add control in 'UBI_IOCATT' ioctl to reserve PEBs for filling pools

This patch imports a new field 'need_resv_pool' in struct 'ubi_attach_req'
to control whether or not reserving free PEBs for filling pool/wl_pool.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217787
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# d4c48e5b 28-Aug-2023 Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>

ubi: fastmap: Add module parameter to control reserving filling pool PEBs

Adding 6th module parameter in 'mtd=xxx' to control whether or not
reserving PEBs for filling pool/wl_pool.

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 669d2044 16-Aug-2022 Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>

ubi: fastmap: Add fastmap control support for 'UBI_IOCATT' ioctl

[1] suggests that fastmap is suitable for large flash devices. Module
parameter 'fm_autoconvert' is a coarse grained switch to enable all
ubi devices to generate fastmap, which may turn on fastmap even for
small flash devices.

This patch imports a new field 'disable_fm' in struct 'ubi_attach_req'
to support following situations by ioctl 'UBI_IOCATT'.
[old functions]
A. Disable 'fm_autoconvert': Disbable fastmap for all ubi devices
B. Enable 'fm_autoconvert': Enable fastmap for all ubi devices
[new function]
C. Enable 'fm_autoconvert', set 'disable_fm' for given device: Don't
create new fastmap and do full scan (existed fastmap will be
destroyed) for the given ubi device.

A simple test case in [2].

[1] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_fastmap
[2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216278

Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# ec1f97f5 10-Aug-2022 Jilin Yuan <yuanjilin@cdjrlc.com>

ubi: Fix repeated words in comments

Delete the redundant word 'a'.
Delete the redundant word 'the'.

Signed-off-by: Jilin Yuan <yuanjilin@cdjrlc.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 407e9ef7 11-Sep-2018 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

compat_ioctl: move drivers to compat_ptr_ioctl

Each of these drivers has a copy of the same trivial helper function to
convert the pointer argument and then call the native ioctl handler.

We now have a generic implementation of that, so use it.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# 1a59d1b8 27-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 663586c0 07-Nov-2018 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubi: Expose the bitrot interface

Using UBI_IOCRPEB and UBI_IOCSPEB userspace can force
reading and scrubbing of PEBs.

In case of bitflips UBI will automatically take action
and move data to a different PEB.
This interface allows a daemon to foster your NAND.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# c355aa46 02-Jul-2018 Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>

ubi: expose the volume CRC check skip flag

Now that we have the logic for skipping CRC check for static UBI volumes
in the core, let's expose it to users.

This makes use of a padding byte in the volume description data
structure as a flag. This flag only tell for now whether we should skip
the CRC check of a volume.

This checks the UBI volume for which we are trying to skip the CRC check
is static.

Let's also make sure that the flags passed to verify_mkvol_req are
valid.

We voluntarily do not take into account the skip_check flag in
vol_cdev_write() as we want to make sure what we wrote was correctly
written.

Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 9a5f09ac 16-Sep-2016 Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

UBI: add an helper to check lnum validity

ubi_leb_valid() is here to replace the
lnum < 0 || lnum >= vol->reserved_pebs checks.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 5f09aaa9 16-Sep-2016 Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

UBI: use vol->usable_leb_size instead of (ubi->leb_size - vol->data_pad)

vol->usable_size is already set to ubi->leb_size - vol->data_pad. Use
vol->usable_size instead of recalculating it.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 5955102c 22-Jan-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a396ce4b 19-Oct-2015 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: Remove in vain semicolon

...found while browsing.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 299d0c5b 28-Feb-2015 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

UBI: fix check for "too many bytes"

The comparison from the previous line seems to have been erroneously
(partially) copied-and-pasted onto the next. The second line should be
checking req.bytes, not req.lnum.

Coverity CID #139400

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
[rw: Fixed comparison]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 45fc5c81 09-Nov-2014 Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

UBI: extend UBI layer debug/messaging capabilities - cosmetics

Some cosmetic fixes to the patch "UBI: Extend UBI layer debug/messaging
capabilities".

Signed-off-by: Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 892abde5 24-Nov-2014 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: rename_volumes: Use UBI_METAONLY

By using UBI_METAONLY in rename_volumes() it is now possible to rename
an UBI volume atomically while it is open for writing.
This is useful for firmware upgrades.

Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Andrew Murray <amurray@embedded-bits.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Tested-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@embedded-bits.co.uk>


# fafdd2bf 24-Nov-2014 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: Implement UBI_METAONLY

UBI_METAONLY is a new open mode for UBI volumes, it indicates
that only meta data is being changed.
Meta data in terms of UBI volumes means data which is stored in the
UBI volume table but not on the volume itself.
While it does not interfere with UBI_READONLY and UBI_READWRITE
it is not allowed to use UBI_METAONLY together with UBI_EXCLUSIVE.

Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Andrew Murray <amurray@embedded-bits.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Guido Martínez <guido@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Tested-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@embedded-bits.co.uk>


# 32608703 20-Oct-2014 Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

UBI: Extend UBI layer debug/messaging capabilities

If there is more then one UBI device mounted, there is no way to
distinguish between messages from different UBI devices.
Add device number to all ubi layer message types.

The R/O block driver messages were replaced by pr_* since
ubi_device structure is not used by it.

Amended a bit by Artem.

Signed-off-by: Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 7fbbd057 19-Sep-2014 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

UBI: return on error in rename_volumes()

I noticed this during a code review. We are checking that the strlen()
of ->name is not less than the ->name_len which the user gave us. I
believe this bug is harmless but clearly we meant to return here instead
of setting an error code and then not using it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# fda322a1 29-Aug-2014 Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>

UBI: Dispatch update notification if the volume is updated

The UBI_IOCVOLUP ioctl is used to start an update and also to
truncate a volume. In the first case, a "volume updated" notification
is dispatched when the update is done.

This commit adds the "volume updated" notification to be also sent when
the volume is truncated. This is required for UBI block and gluebi to get
notified about the new volume size.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+


# 778c7eb8 16-Apr-2014 Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>

UBI: weaken the 'exclusive' constraint when opening volumes to rename

The UBI volume rename ioctl (UBI_IOCRNVOL) open the volumes in exclusive
mode. The volumes are opened for two reasons: to build a volume rename list,
and a volume remove list.

However, the first open constraint is excessive and can be replaced by
a 'read-write' open mode. The second open constraint is properly set as
'exclusive' given the volume is opened for removal and we don't want any
users around.

By weakening the former 'exclusive' mode, we allow 'read-only' users to keep
the volume open, while a rename is taking place. This is useful to perform
an atomic rename, in a firmware upgrade scenario, while keeping the volume
in read-only use (for instance, if a ubiblock is mounted as rootfs).

It's worth mention this is not the case of UBIFS, which keeps the volume
opened as 'read-write' despite mounted as read-write or read-only mode.

This change was suggested at least twice by Artem:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-September/044175.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/39866

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 8af87188 05-Mar-2014 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename block device ioctls

Rename the UBI_IOCVOLATTBLK and UBI_IOCVOLDETBLK to UBI_IOCVOLCRBLK and
UBI_IOCVOLRMBLK, because we do not use terms "attach" and "detach" for the R/O
block devices on top of UBI volumes. Instead, we use terms "create" and
"remove". This patch also amends the related commentaries.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>


# 4d283ee2 03-Mar-2014 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: block: do not use term "attach"

We already use term attach/detach for UBI->MTD relations, let's not use this
for UBI->ubiblock relations to avoid confusion. Just use 'create' and 'remove'
instead. E.g., "create a R/O block device on top of a UBI volume".

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 9d54c8a3 25-Feb-2014 Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>

UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes

This commit introduces read-only block device emulation on top of UBI volumes.

Given UBI takes care of wear leveling and bad block management it's possible
to add a thin layer to enable block device access to UBI volumes.
This allows to use a block-oriented filesystem on a flash device.

The UBI block devices are meant to be used in conjunction with any
regular, block-oriented file system (e.g. ext4), although it's primarily
targeted at read-only file systems, such as squashfs.

Block devices are created upon user request through new ioctls:
UBI_IOCVOLATTBLK to attach and UBI_IOCVOLDETBLK to detach.
Also, a new UBI module parameter is added 'ubi.block'. This parameter is
needed in order to attach a block device on boot-up time, allowing to
mount the rootfs on a ubiblock device.
For instance, you could have these kernel parameters:

ubi.mtd=5 ubi.block=0,0 root=/dev/ubiblock0_0

Or, if you compile ubi as a module:

$ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd5 block=/dev/ubi0_0

Artem: amend commentaries and massage the patch a little bit.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 4a1f2f38 22-Jun-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 496ad9aa 23-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: file_inode(file)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 719bb840 27-Aug-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: print less

UBI currently prints a lot of information when it mounts a volume, which
bothers some people. Make it less chatty - print only important information
by default.

Get rid of 'dbg_msg()' macro completely.

Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 049333ce 27-Aug-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: comply with coding style

Join all the split printk lines in order to stop checkpatch complaining.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# db7e21c2 20-Aug-2012 Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>

UBI: add max_beb_per1024 to attach ioctl

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>


# 256334c3 20-Aug-2012 Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>

UBI: prepare for max_beb_per1024 module parameter addition

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>


# 2ce7be1b 02-Jul-2012 Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>

UBI: fix spelling of detach in debug output

Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 62f38455 20-May-2012 Joel Reardon <joel@clambassador.com>

UBI: modify ubi_wl_flush function to clear work queue for a lnum

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>


# e2986827 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: get rid of dbg_err

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>


# 718c00bb 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_dbg_dump_mkvol_req

I am going to remove the "UBI debugging" compilation option and make the
debugging stuff to be always compiled it. This patch is a preparation
which renames 'ubi_dbg_dump_mkvol_req()' to 'ubi_dump_mkvol_req()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# b36a261e 14-May-2012 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: Kill data type hint

We do not need this feature and to our shame it even was not working
and there was a bug found very recently.
-- Artem Bityutskiy

Without the data type hint UBI2 (fastmap) will be easier to implement.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 4a59c797 13-Jan-2012 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: fix nameless volumes handling

Currently it's possible to create a volume without a name. E.g:
ubimkvol -n 32 -s 2MiB -t static /dev/ubi0 -N ""

After that vtbl_check() will always fail because it does not permit
empty strings.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 02c24a82 16-Jul-2011 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>

fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers

Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# feddbb34 28-Mar-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix minor stylistic issues

Fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings:

* space before tab
* line over 80 characters
* include linux/ioctl.h instead of asm/ioctl.h

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 6748482f 15-Mar-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: re-name set volume properties ioctl

Rename the ioctl which sets volume properties from 'UBI_IOCSETPROP' to
'UBI_IOCSETVOLPROP' to reflect the fact that this ioctl is about volume
properties, not device properties. This is also consistent with the
other volume ioctl name - 'UBI_IOCVOLUP'.

The main motivation for the re-name, however, is that we are going
to introduce the per-UBI device "set properties" ioctl, so we need
good and logical naming.

At the same time, re-name the "set volume properties request" data
structure from 'struct ubi_set_prop_req' to
'struct ubi_set_vol_prop_req'.

And re-name 'UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE' to 'UBI_VOL_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# e10b376e 21-Mar-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: make the control character device non-seekable

This patch makes the UBI control device (/dev/ubi_ctrl) non-seekable.
The seek operation does is not applicable to this file, so it is
cleaner to explicitly return error (which the added 'no_llseek()')
does than trying to change the position (which the removed
'default_llseek()' does).

This is an API break, but the only known user of this interface is
mtd-utils which does not need the seeking functionality. And any app
which relies on this is broken, but I'm not aware of such apps.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 6038f373 15-Aug-2010 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

llseek: automatically add .llseek fop

All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>


# 01ebc12f 07-Aug-2010 Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

UBI: eliminate update of list_for_each_entry loop cursor

list_for_each_entry uses its first argument to move from one element to the
next, so modifying it can break the iteration. The variable re1 is already
used within the loop as a temporary variable, and is not live here.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
iterator name list_for_each_entry;
expression x,E;
position p1,p2;
@@

list_for_each_entry@p1(x,...) { <... x =@p2 E ...> }

@@
expression x,E;
position r.p1,r.p2;
statement S;
@@

*x =@p2 E
...
list_for_each_entry@p1(x,...) S
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 7ea80859 26-May-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5a0e3ad6 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking 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>


# c5ce5b46 26-Jan-2010 Mika Westerberg <ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com>

UBI: fix volume creation input checking

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


# 518ceef0 29-Apr-2009 Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>

UBI: remove built-in gluebi

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>


# 0e0ee1cc 29-Apr-2009 Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>

UBI: add notification API

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>


# e1cf7e6d 07-May-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: improve debugging messages

Various minor improvements to the debugging messages which
I found useful while hunting problems.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# f089c0b2 07-May-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: re-name volumes_mutex to device_mutex

The mutex essencially protects the entire UBI device, so the
old @volumes_mutex name is a little misleading.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 383d08e0 07-May-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove redundant mutex

The @mult_mutex does not serve any purpose. We already have
@volumes_mutex and it is enough. The @volume mutex is pushed
down to the 'ubi_rename_volumes()', because we want first
to open all volumes in the exclusive mode, and then lock the
mutex, just like all other ioctl's (remove, re-size, etc) do.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 1b24bc3a 05-Feb-2009 Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>

UBI: add fsync capability

Now, we can call fsync() on an UBI volume.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 766fb95b 27-Jan-2009 Sidney Amani <seed@uffs.org>

UBI: allow direct user-space I/O

Introduce a new ioctl UBI_IOCSETPROP to set properties
on a volume. Also add the first property:
UBI_PROP_DIRECT_WRITE, this property is used to set the
ability to use direct writes in userspace

Signed-off-by: Sidney Amani <seed@uffs.org>
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 3013ee31 16-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: use nicer 64-bit math

Get rid of 'do_div()' and use more user-friendly primitives from
'linux/math64.h'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# f429b2ea 16-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add ioctl compatibility

UBI ioctl's do not work when running 64-bit kernel and 32-bit
user-land. Fix this by adding the compat_ioctl method.

Also, UBI serializes all ioctls, so more than one ioctl at a time
is not a problem. Amd UBI does not seem to depend on anything else,
so use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl (no BKL needed).

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# 4d187a88 11-Jan-2009 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

UBI: constify file operations

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# ade44ce0 16-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: allow all ioctls

Some ioctl's in UBI are enabled only when debugging is switched
on. There is not particular reason for this, just noone needed
them. However, some people need the now for their user-space
development. Thus, allow these ioctl's even if UBI debugging
is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 573135b5 16-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove unnecessry header inclusion

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# a27ce8f5 05-Jan-2009 Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>

UBI: add ioctl for is_mapped operation

This patch adds ioctl to check if an LEB is mapped or not (as a
debugging option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# c3da23be 05-Jan-2009 Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>

UBI: add ioctl for unmap operation

This patch adds ioctl for the LEB unmap operation (as a debugging
option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 141e6ebd 05-Jan-2009 Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>

UBI: add ioctl for map operation

This patch adds ioctl for the LEB map operation (as a debugging
option so far).

[Re-named ioctl to make it look the same as the other one and made
some minor stylistic changes. Artem Bityutskiy.]

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# f2863c54 27-Dec-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix checkpatch.pl warnings

Just minor indentation and "over 80 characters" fixes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 7d200e88 31-Aug-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove BKL

We do not need BKL in UBI because we serialize things
properly.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 9c9ec147 18-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings

Just out or curiousity ran checkpatch.pl for whole UBI,
and discovered there are quite a few of stylistic issues.
Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# f40ac9cd 13-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: implement multiple volumes rename

Quite useful ioctl which allows to make atomic system upgrades.
The idea belongs to Richard Titmuss <richard_titmuss@logitech.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# c8566350 16-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix and re-work debugging stuff

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# a6ea4407 13-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: improve mkvol request validation

Check that volume name is not shorter than 'name_len'.

No need to copy the trailing zero byte because whole array
was zeroed earlier.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 73789a3d 03-Jul-2008 Bruce Leonard <brucle@selinc.com>

UBI: fix 64-bit calculations

Signed-off-by: Bruce Leonard <brucle@selinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# cadb40cc 21-May-2008 Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

UBI: avoid unnecessary division operations

UBI already checks that @min io size is the power of 2 at io_init.
It is save to use bit operations then.

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 72b67048 15-May-2008 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

UBI: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 5b1defe7 16-Jan-2008 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

[UBI] drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: unused var

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>


# e653879c 24-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: implement atomic LEB change ioctl

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 1b68d0ee 24-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: simplify internal interfaces

Instead of passing vol_id to all functions and then find
struct ubi_volume, pass struct ubi_volume pointer.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 0411e735 24-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: do not change file pointer while updating

Since we do not change semantics of seek(), changing the file
pointer while updating does not make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# ae616e1b 15-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix warnings

drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: In function ‘vol_cdev_read’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:187: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
CC [M] drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_erase’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:483: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_unmap’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:544: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: In function ‘ubi_leb_map’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c:582: warning: unused variable ‘vol_id’

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 897a316c 18-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: handle attach ioctl

Actually implement the MTD device attach/detach handlers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# e73f4459 17-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add UBI devices reference counting

This is one more step on the way to "removable" UBI devices. It
adds reference counting for UBI devices. Every time a volume on
this device is opened - the device's refcount is increased. It
is also increased if someone is reading any sysfs file of this
UBI device or of one of its volumes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 9f961b57 16-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add UBI control device

This patch is a preparation to make UBI devices dynamic. It
adds an UBI control device which has dynamically allocated
major number and registers itself as "ubi_ctrl". It does not
do anything so far. The idea is that this device will allow
to attach/detach MTD devices from userspace.

This is symilar to what the Linux device mapper has.

The next things to do are:
* Fix UBI, because it now assumes UBI devices cannot go away
* Implement control device ioctls which will attach/detach MTD
devices

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 40e4d0c1 17-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: tweak volumes locking some more

Make the code more consistent by requiring the caller to lock the
ubi->volume_mutex, because this is what we do for updates.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 450f872a 17-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: get device when opening volume

When a volume is opened, get its kref via get_device() call.
And put the reference when closing the volume. With this, we
may have a bit saner volume delete.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 89b96b69 16-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: improve internal interfaces

Pass volume description object to the EBA function which makes
more sense, and EBA function do not have to find the volume
description object by volume ID.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# b96bf4c3 16-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove ubi_devices_cnt

This global variablea is not really needed, remove it

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 01f7b309 15-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: improve error messages

Always print error code with error messages, sometimes it is
extremely helpful info.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 49dfc299 15-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove redundant field

Remove redundant ubi->major field - we have it in ubi->cdev.dev
already.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# add0b43c 18-Jul-2007 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

UBI: fix compile warning

cdev.c whines in current git:

drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: In function `major_to_device':
drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:67: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Shut it up.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# bf07803a 17-May-2007 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

UBI: cleanup ioctl handling

- don't do access_ok + get/put user but use the proper macro
- remove useless checks

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# f800f09b 06-May-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: minor comma fix

Use coma at the the last elements of structure initializer.

Daniel Stone's explanation:

Because it turns:
- .attr = foo
+ .attr = foo,
+ .bar = baz

into:
+ .bar = baz,

i.e., far less likely to screw up a merge.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 92ad8f37 06-May-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: use vmalloc for large buffers

UBI allocates temporary buffers of PEB size, which may be 256KiB.
Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for such big temporary buffers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 941dfb07 05-May-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: set correct gluebi device size

In case of static volumes, make emulated MTD device size to
be equivalent to data size, rather then volume size.

Reported-by: John Smith <john@arrows.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 801c135c 26-Jun-2006 Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de>

UBI: Unsorted Block Images

UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single
flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides
a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling
across the whole flash device.

In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector
numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks.

More information may be found at
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html

Partitioning/Re-partitioning

An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is
limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be
viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can
be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the
sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit.

UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are
read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums.

Bad eraseblocks handling

UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical
eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical
eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this.

Scrubbing

On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation,
sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first
they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate,
correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub
the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock
and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of
scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users.

Erase Counts

UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees
higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows
for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are
used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm
itself is exchangeable.

Booting from NAND

For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be
capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND
flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They
usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This
"initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to
load and execute the next boot phase.

Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the
flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program
loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become
corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by
storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume.

UBI volumes vs. static partitions

UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions:

* both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI
volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions;
* both support three basic operations - read, write, erase.

But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional
static MTD partitions:

* there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI
volumes, so the user should not care about this;
* there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes.

So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed
restrictions.

Where can it be found?

Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD
gits.

What are the applications for?

The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi
files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain
binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing
step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content
analysis after a system has crashed..

Who did UBI?

The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas
Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others
were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem
B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver
Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem.
Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on
a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander
Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements.

Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>