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1 files changed, 61 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
index 79ca304fc4d..11eb8ef1248 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
@@ -39,32 +39,46 @@
* eraseblocks are put to the @free list and the physical eraseblock to be
* erased are put to the @erase list.
*
+ * About corruptions
+ * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ *
+ * UBI protects EC and VID headers with CRC-32 checksums, so it can detect
+ * whether the headers are corrupted or not. Sometimes UBI also protects the
+ * data with CRC-32, e.g., when it executes the atomic LEB change operation, or
+ * when it moves the contents of a PEB for wear-leveling purposes.
+ *
* UBI tries to distinguish between 2 types of corruptions.
- * 1. Corruptions caused by power cuts. These are harmless and expected
- * corruptions and UBI tries to handle them gracefully, without printing too
- * many warnings and error messages. The idea is that we do not lose
- * important data in these case - we may lose only the data which was being
- * written to the media just before the power cut happened, and the upper
- * layers (e.g., UBIFS) are supposed to handle these situations. UBI puts
- * these PEBs to the head of the @erase list and they are scheduled for
- * erasure.
+ *
+ * 1. Corruptions caused by power cuts. These are expected corruptions and UBI
+ * tries to handle them gracefully, without printing too many warnings and
+ * error messages. The idea is that we do not lose important data in these case
+ * - we may lose only the data which was being written to the media just before
+ * the power cut happened, and the upper layers (e.g., UBIFS) are supposed to
+ * handle such data losses (e.g., by using the FS journal).
+ *
+ * When UBI detects a corruption (CRC-32 mismatch) in a PEB, and it looks like
+ * the reason is a power cut, UBI puts this PEB to the @erase list, and all
+ * PEBs in the @erase list are scheduled for erasure later.
*
* 2. Unexpected corruptions which are not caused by power cuts. During
- * scanning, such PEBs are put to the @corr list and UBI preserves them.
- * Obviously, this lessens the amount of available PEBs, and if at some
- * point UBI runs out of free PEBs, it switches to R/O mode. UBI also loudly
- * informs about such PEBs every time the MTD device is attached.
+ * scanning, such PEBs are put to the @corr list and UBI preserves them.
+ * Obviously, this lessens the amount of available PEBs, and if at some point
+ * UBI runs out of free PEBs, it switches to R/O mode. UBI also loudly informs
+ * about such PEBs every time the MTD device is attached.
*
* However, it is difficult to reliably distinguish between these types of
- * corruptions and UBI's strategy is as follows. UBI assumes (2.) if the VID
- * header is corrupted and the data area does not contain all 0xFFs, and there
- * were not bit-flips or integrity errors while reading the data area. Otherwise
- * UBI assumes (1.). The assumptions are:
- * o if the data area contains only 0xFFs, there is no data, and it is safe
- * to just erase this PEB.
- * o if the data area has bit-flips and data integrity errors (ECC errors on
+ * corruptions and UBI's strategy is as follows. UBI assumes corruption type 2
+ * if the VID header is corrupted and the data area does not contain all 0xFFs,
+ * and there were no bit-flips or integrity errors while reading the data area.
+ * Otherwise UBI assumes corruption type 1. So the decision criteria are as
+ * follows.
+ * o If the data area contains only 0xFFs, there is no data, and it is safe
+ * to just erase this PEB - this is corruption type 1.
+ * o If the data area has bit-flips or data integrity errors (ECC errors on
* NAND), it is probably a PEB which was being erased when power cut
- * happened.
+ * happened, so this is corruption type 1. However, this is just a guess,
+ * which might be wrong.
+ * o Otherwise this it corruption type 2.
*/
#include <linux/err.h>
@@ -74,7 +88,7 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#include "ubi.h"
-#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID
+#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG
static int paranoid_check_si(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si);
#else
#define paranoid_check_si(ubi, si) 0
@@ -115,7 +129,7 @@ static int add_to_list(struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum, int ec, int to_head,
} else
BUG();
- seb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb), GFP_KERNEL);
+ seb = kmem_cache_alloc(si->scan_leb_slab, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!seb)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -144,7 +158,7 @@ static int add_corrupted(struct ubi_scan_info *si, int pnum, int ec)
dbg_bld("add to corrupted: PEB %d, EC %d", pnum, ec);
- seb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb), GFP_KERNEL);
+ seb = kmem_cache_alloc(si->scan_leb_slab, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!seb)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -553,7 +567,7 @@ int ubi_scan_add_used(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si,
if (err)
return err;
- seb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb), GFP_KERNEL);
+ seb = kmem_cache_alloc(si->scan_leb_slab, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!seb)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1152,9 +1166,15 @@ struct ubi_scan_info *ubi_scan(struct ubi_device *ubi)
si->volumes = RB_ROOT;
err = -ENOMEM;
+ si->scan_leb_slab = kmem_cache_create("ubi_scan_leb_slab",
+ sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb),
+ 0, 0, NULL);
+ if (!si->scan_leb_slab)
+ goto out_si;
+
ech = kzalloc(ubi->ec_hdr_alsize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ech)
- goto out_si;
+ goto out_slab;
vidh = ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(ubi, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vidh)
@@ -1215,6 +1235,8 @@ out_vidh:
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vidh);
out_ech:
kfree(ech);
+out_slab:
+ kmem_cache_destroy(si->scan_leb_slab);
out_si:
ubi_scan_destroy_si(si);
return ERR_PTR(err);
@@ -1223,11 +1245,12 @@ out_si:
/**
* destroy_sv - free the scanning volume information
* @sv: scanning volume information
+ * @si: scanning information
*
* This function destroys the volume RB-tree (@sv->root) and the scanning
* volume information.
*/
-static void destroy_sv(struct ubi_scan_volume *sv)
+static void destroy_sv(struct ubi_scan_info *si, struct ubi_scan_volume *sv)
{
struct ubi_scan_leb *seb;
struct rb_node *this = sv->root.rb_node;
@@ -1247,7 +1270,7 @@ static void destroy_sv(struct ubi_scan_volume *sv)
this->rb_right = NULL;
}
- kfree(seb);
+ kmem_cache_free(si->scan_leb_slab, seb);
}
}
kfree(sv);
@@ -1265,19 +1288,19 @@ void ubi_scan_destroy_si(struct ubi_scan_info *si)
list_for_each_entry_safe(seb, seb_tmp, &si->alien, u.list) {
list_del(&seb->u.list);
- kfree(seb);
+ kmem_cache_free(si->scan_leb_slab, seb);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(seb, seb_tmp, &si->erase, u.list) {
list_del(&seb->u.list);
- kfree(seb);
+ kmem_cache_free(si->scan_leb_slab, seb);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(seb, seb_tmp, &si->corr, u.list) {
list_del(&seb->u.list);
- kfree(seb);
+ kmem_cache_free(si->scan_leb_slab, seb);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(seb, seb_tmp, &si->free, u.list) {
list_del(&seb->u.list);
- kfree(seb);
+ kmem_cache_free(si->scan_leb_slab, seb);
}
/* Destroy the volume RB-tree */
@@ -1298,14 +1321,15 @@ void ubi_scan_destroy_si(struct ubi_scan_info *si)
rb->rb_right = NULL;
}
- destroy_sv(sv);
+ destroy_sv(si, sv);
}
}
+ kmem_cache_destroy(si->scan_leb_slab);
kfree(si);
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID
+#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG
/**
* paranoid_check_si - check the scanning information.
@@ -1323,6 +1347,9 @@ static int paranoid_check_si(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si)
struct ubi_scan_leb *seb, *last_seb;
uint8_t *buf;
+ if (!(ubi_chk_flags & UBI_CHK_GEN))
+ return 0;
+
/*
* At first, check that scanning information is OK.
*/
@@ -1575,4 +1602,4 @@ out:
return -EINVAL;
}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID */
+#endif /* CONFIG_MTD_UBI_DEBUG */