Commit 0798cea8c2 "UBI: improve corrupted flash handling"
broke delet-compatible volumes handling - it introduced a limit of 8 eraseblocks which
may be corrupted. And delete-compatible eraseblocks are added to the "corrupted" list,
so if we'd have a large delete-compatible volume, UBI would refuse it.
The fix is to add delete-compatible volumes to the erase list instead. Indeed, they are
corrupted, we just have to erase them.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently UBI prints
UBI: corrupted PEBs will be formatted
even if there are not corrupted PEBs. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
When a delete-compatible volume is found, it is first added to the
'corr' list, which contains "corrupted" PEBs which should be erased,
and then it is added to the used volumes tree. However, the second
step should not be done. This does not cause problems in practice,
because we never access delete-compattible volumes, but it is still
not the right thing to do.
[Artem: amended the commit message and few prints]
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Fix the followong compilation warnings introduced by commit
095751a6e0:
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: In function 'check_what_we_have':
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:960: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_random_bytes' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Fix the following compilation warnings introduced by commit
1a49af2ca0:
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c: In function 'ubi_io_read':
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:153: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:170: warning: format '%s' expects type 'char *', but argument 5 has type 'int'
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:177: warning: format '%zd' expects type 'signed size_t', but argument 7 has type 'int'
drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:177: warning: too many arguments for format
Also, amend the ECC error code string and add brackets and whitespace
there - this should make the message readable.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Generate random image_seq when attaching empty MTD device (kernel do the
ubi formating).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch improves the way UBI handles corrupted flash, or flash
containing garbage or non-UBI data, which is the same from UBI POW.
Namely, we do the following:
* if 5% or more PEBs are corrupted, refuse the flash
* if less than 5% PEBs are corrupted, do not refuse the flash
and format these PEBs
* if less than 8 PEBs are corrupted, format them silently, otherwise
print a warning message.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
This is just a preparation patch which introduces several
'struct ubi_scan_info' fields which count eraseblocks of different
types. This will be used later on to decide whether it is safe to
format the flash or not. No functional changes so far.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
This patch introduces the %UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_READ return code for
the I/O level function. We will use this code in order to distinguish
between "corrupted header possibly because this is non-ubi data" and
"corrupted header possibly because of real data corruption and ECC error".
So far this patch does not introduce any functional change, just a
preparation.
This patch is pased on a patch from
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
We do not really need 2 separate error codes for indicating bad VID
and bad EC headers (UBI_IO_BAD_EC_HDR, UBI_IO_BAD_VID_HDR), it is
enough to have only one UBI_IO_BAD_HDR return code.
This patch does not introduce any functional change, only some
code simplification.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
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>
UBI debugging functions were a little bit over-engineered and
returned more error codes than needed, and the callers had to
do useless checks. Simplify the return codes.
Impact: only debugging code is affected, which means that for
non-developers this is a no-op patch.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
'ubi_io_read_data()' may return EBADMSG in case of an ECC error,
and we should not panic because of this. We have CRC32 checksum
and may check the data. So just ignore the EBADMSG error.
This patch also fixes a minor spelling error at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Sogor <weth@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
In case of error, the function add_volume returns an ERR pointer. The
result of IS_ERR, which is supposed to be used in a test as it is, is
here checked to be less than zero, which seems odd. We suggest to
replace this test by a simple IS_ERR test.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@def0@
expression x;
position p0;
@@
x@p0 = add_volume(...)
@protected@
expression def0.x,E;
position def0.p0;
position p;
statement S;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
if (!IS_ERR(x) && ...) {<... x@p ...>} else S
@unprotected@
expression def0.x,E;
identifier fld;
position def0.p0;
position p != protected.p;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
* x@p->fld
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
No functional changes, just tweak comments to make kernel-doc
work fine and stop complaining.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
Hch asked not to use "unit" for sub-systems, let it be so.
Also some other commentaries modifications.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
(a + b) / (c + d) != a / c + b / d. The old code errornously
assumed this incorrect formuld. Instead, just sum all erase
counters in a 64-bit variable and divide to the number of EBs
at the end.
Thanks to Adrian Hunter for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
Old gcc complains:
CC drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c: In function 'wear_leveling_worker':
drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c:746: warning: 'pe' may be used uninitialized in this function
CC drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.o
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: In function 'ubi_scan':
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:772: warning: 'ec' may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c:772: note: 'ec' was declared here
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
Fix "symbol shadows an earlier one" warnings. Although they are harmless
but it does not hurt to fix them and make sparse happy.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Coverity (1769) found the following problem: if the erase counter
overflow check triggers, ec_hdr is leaked.
Moving the allocation after the overflow check should take care of it.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
To be able to convert kmalloc + memset(..., 1, ...) to kzalloc this patch
reverses the logic around 'buf'.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Hi,I came across problem of having two leb with same sequence no.This
happens when we continuously write one block again and again and reboot
machine before background thread erases those blocks.
The problem here was,when we find two blocks with same sequence no,we take
the higher one,but we were not updating max seq no,so next block may have
the same seqnum.
This patch solves this problem.
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
Add few comments above ubi_scan_add_used() to explain why it is so
complex. Requested by Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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>
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>
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>
