This patch adds a capability to attach MTD devices by their character
device paths. For example, one can do:
$ modprobe ubi mtd=/dev/mtd0
to attach /dev/mtd0.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The @mtd_devs and @mtd_dev_param variables are used only during the
initialization, and all functions that use the variables have
the __init prefix. This means we can safely mark the variables
as __initdata, which is a tiny optimization.
Impact: tiny RAM consumption optimization when UBI is used as a kernel
module.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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
When truncating an UBI volume, UBI should allocates a PEB-sized
buffer but does not release it, which leads to memory leaks.
This patch fixes the issue.
Reported-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Marek Skuczynski <mareksk7@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
When opening UBI volumes by their character device names, make
sure we are opening character devices, not block devices or any
other inode type.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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
ubiupdatevol -t does the following:
- ubi_start_update()
- set_update_marker()
- for all LEBs ubi_eba_unmap_leb()
- clear_update_marker()
- ubi_wl_flush()
ubi_wl_flush() physically erases all PEB, once it returns all PEBs are
empty. clear_update_marker() has the update marker written after return.
If there is a power cut between the last two functions then the UBI
volume has no longer the "update" marker set and may have some valid
LEBs while some of them may be gone.
If that volume in question happens to be a UBIFS volume, then mount
will fail with
|UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (255 but expected 6)
|UBIFS error (pid 1361): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 0:0
|Not a node, first 24 bytes:
|00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
if there is at least one valid LEB and the wear-leveling worker managed
to clear LEB 0.
The patch waits for the wl worker to finish prior clearing the "update"
marker on flash. The two new LEB which are scheduled for erasing after
clear_update_marker() should not matter because they are only visible to
UBI.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Add an 'ubi_open_volume_path(path, mode)' function which works like
'open_bdev_exclusive(path, mode, ...)' where path is the special file
representing the UBI volume, typically /dev/ubi0_0.
This is needed to teach UBIFS being able to mount UBI character devices.
[Comments and the patch were amended a bit by Artem]
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
result is unsigned, the wrong check was used.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Commit 32bc482028 did not fully fix
the backward compatibility issues. We still fail to properly handle
situations when the first PEB contains non-zero image sequence
number, but one of the following PEBs contains zero image sequence
number. For example, this may happen if we mount a new image with
an old kernel, and then try to mount it in the new kernel.
This patch should fix the issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
...
More testing of NOR flash against power cuts showed that sometimes
eraseblocks may be unwritable, and we cannot really invalidate
them before erasure. But in this case the eraseblock probably
contains garbage anyway, and we do not have to invalidate the
headers. This assumption might be not true, but this is at least
what I have observed. So if we cannot invalidate the headers,
we make sure that the PEB does not contain valid VID header.
If this is true, everything is fine, otherwise we panic.
Useful for debugging problems, compiled in only if UBI debugging
is enabled. This patch also makes the UBI writing function dump
the flash if it fails to write.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The assignment to pos when rb is finally NULL is undefined behaviour.
Upon seeing that assignment, GCC may assume that rb is not NULL, and
the loop condition ``rb'' may be optimised away.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
There was a bug report recently where UBI prints:
UBI error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach by scanning, error -22
error messages and refuses to attach a PEB. It turned out to be a
buggy flash driver which returned garbage to almost every UBI read.
This patch makes UBI print a better message in such cases. Namely,
if UBI finds 8 or more corrupted PEBs, it prints a warning and
lists the corrupted PEBs.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
In case of NOR flash, UBI zeroes EC and VID headers' magic,
in order to detect interrupted erasures. It first zeroes out
the EC magic, then VID magic. However, if a power cut happens
in between, we'll end up with a corrupted EC header and a valid
VID header, in which case UBI accepts the PEB, but prints a
warning. This patch makes sure we first zero out the VID
magic, then the EC magic, not vice versa. This is just a
small amendment to prevent warning messages.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
If the EC header is corrupted, but the VID header is OK, UBI accepts the
PEB and treats it as "used". However, generally this should not happen.
Print a warning if this happens.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Fall back onto thinking everything's OK if either of the sequence
numbers we are asked to compare is zero, which is what was used
before sequence numbers were introduced.
[ Artem: modified the patch to be applicable to upstream UBI, added
big comment ]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
If we fail in 'ubi_eba_init_scan()', we free
'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' in there, but also later free it
in 'free_internal_volumes()'. Fix this by assigning NULL
to 'ubi->volumes[i]->eba_tbl' after it is freed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes a bug in the image seq. number handling in the
scanning level. The assignment of the image_seq was incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Do not forget to initialize 'gluebi->ubi_num' because otherwise
it will stay 0 even for ubi1 device, and gluebi will open
wrong UBI device when 'gluebi_get_device()' is called.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The recent "UBI: fix NOR flash recovery" introduced compilation
warnings which were immediately spotted by our linux-next keeper.
This patch fixes them.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This commit fixes NOR flash recovery issues observed with Spansion
S29GL512N NOR.
When NOR erases, it first fills PEBs with zeroes, then sets all bytes
to 0xFF. Filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. And when
power is cut, this results in PEBs containing correct EC and VID headers
but corrupted with zeros at the end. This confuses UBI and it mistakinly
accepts these PEBs and associate them with LEBs.
Fis this issue by zeroing EC and VID magics before erasing PEBs, to
make UBI later refuse zem.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Move the image seq. number handling from I/O level to the scanning
lever, where it really belongs to. Move the @image_seq_set variable
to the @struct ubi_scan_info structure, which exists only during
scanning.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
An image sequence number is added to the UBI erase-counter header
to be able determine if the root file system contains a mixture
of old and new images (because the flashing failed to complete).
A change to nolo is also needed for this to take effect.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'paranoid_check_empty()' is bogus because, which is easilly
seen on NOR flash, which has long erase cycles, and which may
easilly end-up with half-erased eraseblocks. In this case the
paranoid check fails. I is just wrong to assume that PEBs which
do not have EC headers always contain all 0xFF. Such assumption
should not be made on the I/O level, which is quite low.
Thus, just kill the check.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch adds code which makes sure eraseblocks contain all 0xFF
bytes before starting using them. The verification is done only when
debugging checks are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Terminate the UBI background thread prior to restarting the system.
[Artem: amended comments a little]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The UBIFS WL worker may encounter read errors and there is logic
which makes a decision whether we should do one of:
1. cancel the operation and move the PEB with the read errors to
the 'erroneous' list;
2. switch to R/O mode.
ATM, only -EIO errors trigger 1., other errors trigger 2. The idea
is that if we know we encountered an I/O error, do 1. Otherwise,
we do not know how to react, and do 2., just in case. E.g., if
the underlying driver became crazy because of a bug, we do not
want to harm any data, and switch to R/O mode.
This patch does 2 things:
1. Makes sure reads from the source PEB always cause 1. This is
more consistent with other reads which come from the upper
layers and never cause R/O.
2. Teaches UBI to do 1. also on -EBADMSG, UBI_IO_BAD_VID_HDR,
-ENOMEM, and -ETIMEOUT. But this is only when reading the
target PEB.
This preblems were hunted by Adrian Hunter.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
'kmem_cache_free()' oopeses if NULL is passed, and there is
one error-path place where UBI may call it with NULL object.
This problem was pointed to by Adrian Hunter.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
When marking a PEB as bad, print how many PEBs are left reserved.
This is very useful information.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Print not only the PEB number, but also the LEB number and volume id,
which is very useful for bug hunting.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
[Artem: re-worked the patch: made it release resources when the
module is unloaded, made it do module referencing, made it really
independent on UBI, tested it with the UBI test-suite which can
be found in ubi-2.6.git/tests/ubi-tests, re-named most of the
funcs/variables to get rid of the "ubi" word and make names
consistent.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
This patch improves UBI errors handling. ATM UBI switches to
R/O mode when the WL worker fails to read the source PEB.
This means that the upper layers (e.g., UBIFS) has no
chances to unmap the erroneous PEB and fix the error.
This patch changes this behaviour and makes UBI put PEBs
like this into a separate RB-tree, thus preventing the
WL worker from hitting the same read errors again and
again.
But there is a 10% limit on a maximum amount of PEBs like this.
If there are too much of them, UBI switches to R/O mode.
Additionally, this patch teaches UBI not to panic and
switch to R/O mode if after a PEB has been copied, the
target LEB cannot be read back. Instead, now UBI cancels
the operation and schedules the target PEB for torturing.
The error paths has been tested by ingecting errors
into 'ubi_eba_copy_leb()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes the error path in the WL worker - in same cases
UBI oopses when 'goto out_error' happens and e1 or e2 are NULL.
This patch also cleans up the error paths a little. And I have
tested nearly all error paths in the WL worker.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch is a clean-up and a preparation for the following
patches. It introduece constants for the return values of the
'ubi_eba_copy_leb()' function.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch fixes a minor problem where we may fail to wake
upe the UBI background thread. This is not fatal at all,
it may just result at sligtly worse performace for a short
period of time, just because the thread will be woken up
when real I/O on the UBI starts.
Anywey, the issue is the race condition between
'ubi_attach_mtd_dev()' and 'ubi_thread()'. If we do not
serialize them, the 'wake_up_process()' call may be done
before 'ubi_thread()' went seep, but after it checked
'ubi->thread_enabled'.
This issue was spotted by Shin Hong <hongshin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The @vol->upd_marker should be protected by the @ubi->device_mutex,
otherwise 'paranoid_check_volume()' complains sometimes because
vol->upd_marker is 1 while vtbl_rec->upd_marker is 0.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
If a volume paranoid check fails, do not return an error
code to the caller, but just print error messages and go
forward. The primary reason for this is that it is difficult
to recover and cancel the operation at that stage.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
I am experiencing an error in 'paranoid_check_volume()'. Add
dump_stack() there to make it easier to identify the reasons
of the error.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
When paranoid checs are enabled, the 'io_paral' test from the
'mtd-utils' package fails. The symptoms are:
UBI error: paranoid_check_all_ff: flash region at PEB 3973:512, length 15872 does not contain all 0xFF bytes
UBI error: paranoid_check_all_ff: paranoid check failed for PEB 3973
UBI: hex dump of the 512-16384 region
It turned out to be a bug in the checking function. Suppose there
are 2 tasks - A and B. Task A is the wear-levelling working
('wear_leveling_worker()'). It is reading the VID header to find
which LEB this PEB belongs to. Say, task A is reading header
of PEB X. Suppose PEB X is unmapped, and has no VID header.
Task B is trying to write to PEB X.
Task A: in 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()': reads the VID header from PEB X.
The read data contain all 0xFF bytes.
Task B: writes VID header and some data to PEB X
Task A: assumes PEB X is empty, calls 'paranoid_check_all_ff()', which
fails.
The solution for this problem is to make 'paranoid_check_all_ff()'
re-read the VID header, re-check it, and only if it is not there,
check the rest. This now implemented by the 'paranoid_check_empty()'
function.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The @ubi->dbg_peb_buf is needed only when paranoid checks are
enabled, not when debugging in general is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Various minor improvements to the debugging messages which
I found useful while hunting problems.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
