History log of /linux-master/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 68a24aba 23-Jan-2024 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubi: Check for too small LEB size in VTBL code

If the LEB size is smaller than a volume table record we cannot
have volumes.
In this case abort attaching.

Cc: Chenyuan Yang <cy54@illinois.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 801c135ce73d ("UBI: Unsorted Block Images")
Reported-by: Chenyuan Yang <cy54@illinois.edu>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/1433EB7A-FC89-47D6-8F47-23BE41B263B3@illinois.edu/
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>


# fc55dacf 30-Nov-2019 Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>

ubi: Free the normal volumes in error paths of ubi_attach_mtd_dev()

The allocated normal volumes saved in ubi->volumes are not freed
in the error paths in ubi_attach_mtd_dev() and its callees (e.g.
ubi_attach() and ubi_read_volume_table()).

These normal volumes should be freed through kill_volumes() and
vol_release(), but ubi_attach_mtd_dev() may fail before
calling uif_init(), and there will be memory leaks.

So adding a new helper ubi_free_all_volumes() to free the normal
and the internal volumes. And in order to prevent double-free
of volume, reset ubi->volumes[i] to NULL after freeing.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 9d6c4742 30-Nov-2019 Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>

ubi: Check the presence of volume before call ubi_fastmap_destroy_checkmap()

Else there may be oops when fastmap is enabled and init_volumes() fails.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 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>


# 62652517 02-Jul-2018 Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@bootlin.com>

ubi: provide a way to skip CRC checks

Some users of static UBI volumes implement their own integrity check,
thus making the volume CRC check done at open time useless. For
instance, this is the case when one use the ubiblock + dm-verity +
squashfs combination, where dm-verity already checks integrity of the
block device but this time at the block granularity instead of verifying
the whole volume.

Skipping this test drastically improves the boot-time.

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


# 25677478 12-Jun-2018 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubi: Initialize Fastmap checkmapping correctly

We cannot do it last, otherwithse it will be skipped for dynamic
volumes.

Reported-by: Lachmann, Juergen <juergen.lachmann@harman.com>
Fixes: 34653fd8c46e ("ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 34653fd8 28-May-2018 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubi: fastmap: Check each mapping only once

Maintain a bitmap to keep track of which LEB->PEB mapping
was checked already.
That way we have to read back VID headers only once.

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


# 3291b52f 16-Sep-2016 Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

UBI: introduce the VID buffer concept

Currently, all VID headers are allocated and freed using the
ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr() and ubi_free_vid_hdr() function. These functions
make sure to align allocation on ubi->vid_hdr_alsize and adjust the
vid_hdr pointer to match the ubi->vid_hdr_shift requirements.
This works fine, but is a bit convoluted.
Moreover, the future introduction of LEB consolidation (needed to support
MLC/TLC NANDs) will allows a VID buffer to contain more than one VID
header.

Hence the creation of a ubi_vid_io_buf struct to attach extra information
to the VID header.

We currently only store the actual pointer of the underlying buffer, but
will soon add the number of VID headers contained in the buffer.

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


# 91f4285f 16-Sep-2016 Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>

UBI: provide helpers to allocate and free aeb elements

This not only hides the aeb allocation internals (which is always good in
case we ever want to change the allocation system), but also helps us
factorize the initialization of some common fields (ec and pnum).

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


# 7c7feb2e 28-Sep-2015 shengyong <shengyong1@huawei.com>

UBI: return ENOSPC if no enough space available

UBI: attaching mtd1 to ubi0
UBI: scanning is finished
UBI error: init_volumes: not enough PEBs, required 706, available 686
UBI error: ubi_wl_init: no enough physical eraseblocks (-20, need 1)
UBI error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach mtd1, error -12 <= NOT ENOMEM
UBI error: ubi_init: cannot attach mtd1

If available PEBs are not enough when initializing volumes, return -ENOSPC
directly. If available PEBs are not enough when initializing WL, return
-ENOSPC instead of -ENOMEM.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>


# 2848594a 26-May-2015 shengyong <shengyong1@huawei.com>

UBI: add a helper function for updatting on-flash layout volumes

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com>
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>


# b81000b6 25-Oct-2014 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: vtbl: Use ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change()

This is more a cosmetic change than a fix.
By using ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change()
we can guarantee that the first VTBL record is always
correct and we don't really need the second one anymore.
But we have to keep the second one to not break anything.

Artem: add a comment

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


# 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>


# e8c235b0 08-Jul-2014 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: init_volumes: Ignore volumes with no LEBs

UBI assumes that ubi_attach_info will only contain ubi_ainf_volume
structures for volumes with at least one LEB.
In scanning mode this is true because UBI can nicely create a ubi_ainf_volume
on demand while creating the EBA table.

For fastmap this is not true, the fastmap on-flash structure has a list of
all volumes, the ubi_ainf_volume structures are created from this list.
So it can happen that an empty volume ends up in init_volumes().

We can easely deal with that by looking into ->leb_count too.

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


# 64575574 28-Nov-2012 Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>

UBI: introduce helpers dbg_chk_{io, gen}

With this patch code is a bit more readable and there's no
generated code or functionality impact.
Furthermore, this abstracts implementation details and
will allow to change ubi_debug_info in a less invasive way.

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


# 78b495c3 03-Sep-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: fix a horrible memory deallocation bug

UBI was mistakingly using 'kfree()' instead of 'kmem_cache_free()' when
freeing "attach eraseblock" structures in vtbl.c. Thankfully, this happened
only when we were doing auto-format, so many systems were unaffected. However,
there are still many users affected.

It is strange, but the system did not crash and nothing bad happened when
the SLUB memory allocator was used. However, in case of SLOB we observed an
crash right away.

This problem was introduced in 2.6.39 by commit
"6c1e875 UBI: add slab cache for ubi_scan_leb objects"

A note for stable trees:
Because variable were renamed, this won't cleanly apply to older kernels.
Changing names like this should help:
1. ai -> si
2. aeb_slab_cache -> seb_slab_cache
3. new_aeb -> new_seb

Reported-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v2.6.39+]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 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>


# fbd0107f 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: amend comments after all the renamings

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>


# c87fbd7d 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_scan_get_free_peb

The old name is not logical anymore - rename it to 'ubi_early_get_peb()'.

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


# d717dc2f 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_scan_rm_volume

The old name is not logical anymore - rename it to 'ubi_remove_av()'.

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


# dcd85fdd 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_scan_find_av

The old name is not logical anymore - rename it to 'ubi_find_av()'.

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


# 3561188a 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_scan_add_used

The old name is not logical anymore - rename it to 'ubi_add_to_av()'.

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


# 517af48c 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename sv to av

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>


# a4e6042f 17-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename si to ai

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>


# 2c5ec5ce 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename seb to aeb

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>


# afc15a81 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename struct ubi_scan_info

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>


# cb28a932 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename struct ubi_scan_volume

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>


# 227423d2 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename struct ubi_scan_leb

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>


# 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>


# 7bf523ae 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: more of clean-up terminology for self-checks

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>


# aa44d1d3 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: remove Kconfig debugging option

This patch kills the UBI debugging Kconfig option completely and makes all the
debugging stuff to be always compiled-in. It was pain in the neck to maintain
this useless option because all users I am aware of have debugging enabled
anyway - how else will you diagnose errors otherwise?

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


# 614c74a75 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_dbg_dump_sv

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_sv()' to 'ubi_dump_sv()'.

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


# 1f021e1d 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_dbg_dump_vtbl_record

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_vtbl_record()' to 'ubi_dump_vtbl_record()'.

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


# 766381f0 16-May-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBI: rename ubi_dbg_dump_vol_info

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_vol_info()' to 'ubi_dump_vol_info()'.

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>


# 1f4f4347 10-Jan-2012 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: use own macros for the layout volume

This is a minor nicification: UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_TYPE and
UBI_LAYOUT_VOLUME_ALIGN are currently defined but not used -
use them.

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


# 6bdccffe 22-Dec-2011 Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>

UBI: make vid_hdr non-static

Remove 'static' modifier from the 'vid_hdr' local variable. I do not know
how it slipped in, but this is a bug and will break UBI if someone attaches
2 UBI volumes at the same time.

Artem: amended teh commit message, added -stable.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org


# d57f4054 20-Sep-2011 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

mtd: utilize `mtd_is_*()' functions

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>


# 4788b60a 03-Jun-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove dead code

Thanks to new gcc 4.6 for issuing the following warning:

drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: In function ‘create_vtbl’:
drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:311:33: warning: variable ‘old_seb’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

This patch removes some dead code and fixes the warning.

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


# 2a734bb8 18-May-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: use debugfs for the extra checks knobs

This patch introduces debugfs support to UBI. All the UBI stuff is kept in the
"ubi" debugfs directory, which contains per-UBI device "ubi/ubiX"
sub-directories, containing debugging files. This file also creates
"ubi/ubiX/chk_gen" and "ubi/ubiX/chk_io" knobs for switching general and I/O
extra checks on and off. And it removes the 'debug_chks' UBI module parameters.

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


# 92d124f5 14-Mar-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: make self-checks dynamic

This patch adds a possibility to dynamically switch UBI self-checks
on and off, instead of toggling them compile-time from the configuration
menu. This is much more flexible, and consistent with UBIFS, and this
also simplifies UBI Kconfig menu and the code.

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

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


# 309b5e4e 04-Nov-2010 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

mtd: use vzalloc

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>


# 5fc01ab6 03-Sep-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: preserve corrupted PEBs

Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature
of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption.
The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy
potentially important data.

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

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

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

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


# 0525dac9 03-Sep-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: do not put eraseblocks to the corrupted list unnecessarily

Currently UBI maintains 2 lists of PEBs during scanning:
1. 'erase' list - PEBs which have no corruptions but should be erased
2. 'corr' list - PEBs which have some corruptions and should be erased

But we do not really need 2 lists for PEBs which should be erased after
scanning is done - this is redundant. So this patch makes sure all PEBs
which are corrupted are moved to the head of the 'erase' list. We add
them to the head to make sure they are erased first and we get rid of
corruption ASAP.

However, we do not remove the 'corr' list and realted functions, because
the plan is to use this list for other purposes. Namely, we plan to
put eraseblocks with corruption which does not look like it was caused
by unclean power cut. Then we'll preserve thes PEBs in order to avoid
killing potentially valuable user data.

This patch also amends PEBs accounting, because it was closely tight to
the 'erase'/'corr' lists separation.

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


# be436f62 06-May-2010 Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com>

UBI: misc comment fixes

Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 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>


# ff998793 05-Jan-2010 Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org>

UBI: initialise update marker

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


# 025dfdaf 16-Oct-2008 Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>

trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation

- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 762a9f29 08-Oct-2008 Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>

UBI: print reserved_peb when it is too large

This patch makes debugging a missconfigured UBI a bit easier
by providing the needed information in the boot log.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 9869cd80 18-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: remove pre-sqnum images support

Before UBI got into mainline, there was a slight flash format
change - we did not have sequence number support, then added it.

We have carried full support of those ancient images till this
moment. Now the support is removed, well, not fully removed.

Now UBI will support only _clean_ old images, which were cleanly
detached last time (just before kernel upgrade). This is most
likely the case.

But we will not support unclean ancient images. Surprisingly,
this allows us to remove a big chunk of legacy code.

And the same should be true for downgrading: clean images should
downgrade fine, but unclean ones will not.

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


# ebaaf1af 18-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix kernel-doc errors and warnings

No functional changes, just tweak comments to make kernel-doc
work fine and stop complaining.

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>


# 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>


# beeea636 20-May-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add a comment

It is not clear why we schedule PEB for scrubbing in case of
-EBADMSG. Elaborate.

Requested-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 979c9296 14-May-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: print error code

Print error code if checking failed which is very useful
to identify problems.

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


# f7f02837 03-Mar-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

UBI: mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: fix memory leak

This patch fixes a memory leak introduced by commit
4ccf8cffa963c7b5bdc6d455ea9417084ee49aa8 and spotted by the Coverity
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 6dc4a871 01-Feb-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: do not flush queue on each vtbl change

This is just not necessary. We re-write whole layout copy, so
the old contents cannot show up again sice scan process will
drop it.

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


# 91f2d53c 24-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add layout volume information

Add more information about layout volume to make userspace tools
use the macros instead of constants. Also rename UBI_LAYOUT_VOL_ID
to make it consistent with other macros.

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


# 4ccf8cff 16-Jan-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: add auto-resize feature

The problem: NAND flashes have different amount of initial bad physical
eraseblocks (marked as bad by the manufacturer). For example, for 256MiB
Samsung OneNAND flash there might be from 0 to 40 bad initial eraseblocks,
which is about 2%. When UBI is used as the base system, one needs to know
the exact amount of good physical eraseblocks, because this number is
needed to create the UBI image which is put to the devices during
production. But this number is not know, which forces us to use the
minimum number of good physical eraseblocks. And UBI additionally
reserves some percentage of physical eraseblocks for bad block handling
(default is 1%), so we have 1-3% of PEBs reserved at the end, depending
on the amount of initial bad PEBs. But it is desired to always have
1% (or more, depending on the configuration).

Solution: this patch adds an "auto-resize" flag to the volume table.
The volume which has the "auto-resize" flag will automatically be re-sized
(enlarged) on the first UBI initialization. UBI clears the flag when
the volume is re-sized. Only one volume may have the "auto-resize" flag.

So, the production UBI image may have one volume with "auto-resize"
flag set, and its size is automatically adjusted on the first boot
of the device.

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


# 16f557ec 19-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix comment

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


# d05c77a8 17-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: introduce volume refcounting

Add ref_count field to UBI volumes and remove weired "vol->removed"
field. This way things are better understandable and we do not have
to do whold show_attr operation under spinlock.

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


# cae0a771 16-Dec-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: tweak volumes locking

Transform vtbl_mutex to volumes_mutex - this just makes code
easier to understand.

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>


# e88d6e10 29-Aug-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: do not use vmalloc on I/O path

Similar reason as in case of the previous patch: it causes
deadlocks if a filesystem with writeback support works on top
of UBI. So pre-allocate needed buffers when attaching MTD device.
We also need mutexes to protect the buffers, but they do not
cause much contantion because they are used in recovery, torture,
and WL copy routines, which are called seldom.

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


# 33818bbb 28-Aug-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS

Use GFP_NOFS flag when allocating memory on I/O path, because otherwise
we may deadlock the filesystem which works on top of us. We observed
the deadlocks with UBIFS. Example:

VFS->FS lock a lock->UBI->kmalloc()->VFS writeback->FS locks the same
lock again.

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


# d08c3b78 10-Jul-2007 Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>

UBI: fix overflow bug

I was experiencing overflows in multiplications for
volume->used_bytes in vmt.c & vtbl.c, while creating & resizing large volumes.

vol->used_bytes is long long however its 2 operands vol->used_ebs &
vol->usable_leb_size
are int. So their multiplication for larger values causes integer overflows.
Typecasting them solves the problem.

My machine & flash details:

64Bit dual-core AMD opteron, 1 GB RAM, linux 2.6.18.3.
mtd size = 6GB, volume size= 5GB, peb_size = 4MB.

heres patch which does the fix.

Signed-off-by: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.agnihotri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 94784d91 17-Jun-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: bugfix in error path

When volume creation fails, we have to set ubi->volumes[vol_id]
back to NULL.

This patch also tweaks some debugging stuff.

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


# 3261ebd7 21-May-2007 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

UBI: kill homegrown endian macros

Kill UBI's homegrown endianess handling and replace it with
the standard kernel endianess handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>


# 78d87c95 05-May-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBI: fix error path in create_vtbl()

There were several bugs in volume table creation error path. Thanks to
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> and Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
for finding and analysing them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/3/274

This patch makes ubi_scan_add_to_list() static and renames it to
add_to_list(), just because it is not needed outside scan.c anymore.

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


# c4e90ec0 03-May-2007 Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>

UBI: fix dereference after kfree

Coverity (CID 1614) spotted new_seb being dereferenced after kfree() in
create_vtbl's write_error path.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
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>