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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/mtd, branch v4.6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>UBI: Fix static volume checks when Fastmap is used</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:18:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-26T14:39:48+00:00</published>
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commit 1900149c835ab5b48bea31a823ea5e5a401fb560 upstream.

Ezequiel reported that he's facing UBI going into read-only
mode after power cut. It turned out that this behavior happens
only when updating a static volume is interrupted and Fastmap is
used.

A possible trace can look like:
ubi0 warning: ubi_io_read_vid_hdr [ubi]: no VID header found at PEB 2323, only 0xFF bytes
ubi0 warning: ubi_eba_read_leb [ubi]: switch to read-only mode
CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: ubiupdatevol Not tainted 4.6.0-rc2-ARCH #4
Hardware name: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 300E4C/300E5C/300E7C/NP300E5C-AD8AR, BIOS P04RAP 10/15/2012
0000000000000286 00000000eba949bd ffff8800c45a7b38 ffffffff8140d841
ffff8801964be000 ffff88018eaa4800 ffff8800c45a7bb8 ffffffffa003abf6
ffffffff850e2ac0 8000000000000163 ffff8801850e2ac0 ffff8801850e2ac0
Call Trace:
[&lt;ffffffff8140d841&gt;] dump_stack+0x63/0x82
[&lt;ffffffffa003abf6&gt;] ubi_eba_read_leb+0x486/0x4a0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa00453b3&gt;] ubi_check_volume+0x83/0xf0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa0039d97&gt;] ubi_open_volume+0x177/0x350 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa00375d8&gt;] vol_cdev_open+0x58/0xb0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffff8124b08e&gt;] chrdev_open+0xae/0x1d0
[&lt;ffffffff81243bcf&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x1ff/0x300
[&lt;ffffffff8124afe0&gt;] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
[&lt;ffffffff81244d36&gt;] vfs_open+0x56/0x60
[&lt;ffffffff812545f4&gt;] path_openat+0x4f4/0x1190
[&lt;ffffffff81256621&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
[&lt;ffffffff81263547&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0xc7/0x190
[&lt;ffffffff812450df&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13f/0x210
[&lt;ffffffff812451ce&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[&lt;ffffffff81a99e32&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4

UBI checks static volumes for data consistency and reads the
whole volume upon first open. If the volume is found erroneous
users of UBI cannot read from it, but another volume update is
possible to fix it. The check is performed by running
ubi_eba_read_leb() on every allocated LEB of the volume.
For static volumes ubi_eba_read_leb() computes the checksum of all
data stored in a LEB. To verify the computed checksum it has to read
the LEB's volume header which stores the original checksum.
If the volume header is not found UBI treats this as fatal internal
error and switches to RO mode. If the UBI device was attached via a
full scan the assumption is correct, the volume header has to be
present as it had to be there while scanning to get known as mapped.
If the attach operation happened via Fastmap the assumption is no
longer correct. When attaching via Fastmap UBI learns the mapping
table from Fastmap's snapshot of the system state and not via a full
scan. It can happen that a LEB got unmapped after a Fastmap was
written to the flash. Then UBI can learn the LEB still as mapped and
accessing it returns only 0xFF bytes. As UBI is not a FTL it is
allowed to have mappings to empty PEBs, it assumes that the layer
above takes care of LEB accounting and referencing.
UBIFS does so using the LEB property tree (LPT).
For static volumes UBI blindly assumes that all LEBs are present and
therefore special actions have to be taken.

The described situation can happen when updating a static volume is
interrupted, either by a user or a power cut.
The volume update code first unmaps all LEBs of a volume and then
writes LEB by LEB. If the sequence of operations is interrupted UBI
detects this either by the absence of LEBs, no volume header present
at scan time, or corrupted payload, detected via checksum.
In the Fastmap case the former method won't trigger as no scan
happened and UBI automatically thinks all LEBs are present.
Only by reading data from a LEB it detects that the volume header is
missing and incorrectly treats this as fatal error.
To deal with the situation ubi_eba_read_leb() from now on checks
whether we attached via Fastmap and handles the absence of a
volume header like a data corruption error.
This way interrupted static volume updates will correctly get detected
also when Fastmap is used.

Reported-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1900149c835ab5b48bea31a823ea5e5a401fb560 upstream.

Ezequiel reported that he's facing UBI going into read-only
mode after power cut. It turned out that this behavior happens
only when updating a static volume is interrupted and Fastmap is
used.

A possible trace can look like:
ubi0 warning: ubi_io_read_vid_hdr [ubi]: no VID header found at PEB 2323, only 0xFF bytes
ubi0 warning: ubi_eba_read_leb [ubi]: switch to read-only mode
CPU: 0 PID: 833 Comm: ubiupdatevol Not tainted 4.6.0-rc2-ARCH #4
Hardware name: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 300E4C/300E5C/300E7C/NP300E5C-AD8AR, BIOS P04RAP 10/15/2012
0000000000000286 00000000eba949bd ffff8800c45a7b38 ffffffff8140d841
ffff8801964be000 ffff88018eaa4800 ffff8800c45a7bb8 ffffffffa003abf6
ffffffff850e2ac0 8000000000000163 ffff8801850e2ac0 ffff8801850e2ac0
Call Trace:
[&lt;ffffffff8140d841&gt;] dump_stack+0x63/0x82
[&lt;ffffffffa003abf6&gt;] ubi_eba_read_leb+0x486/0x4a0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa00453b3&gt;] ubi_check_volume+0x83/0xf0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa0039d97&gt;] ubi_open_volume+0x177/0x350 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffffa00375d8&gt;] vol_cdev_open+0x58/0xb0 [ubi]
[&lt;ffffffff8124b08e&gt;] chrdev_open+0xae/0x1d0
[&lt;ffffffff81243bcf&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x1ff/0x300
[&lt;ffffffff8124afe0&gt;] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
[&lt;ffffffff81244d36&gt;] vfs_open+0x56/0x60
[&lt;ffffffff812545f4&gt;] path_openat+0x4f4/0x1190
[&lt;ffffffff81256621&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
[&lt;ffffffff81263547&gt;] ? __alloc_fd+0xc7/0x190
[&lt;ffffffff812450df&gt;] do_sys_open+0x13f/0x210
[&lt;ffffffff812451ce&gt;] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[&lt;ffffffff81a99e32&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4

UBI checks static volumes for data consistency and reads the
whole volume upon first open. If the volume is found erroneous
users of UBI cannot read from it, but another volume update is
possible to fix it. The check is performed by running
ubi_eba_read_leb() on every allocated LEB of the volume.
For static volumes ubi_eba_read_leb() computes the checksum of all
data stored in a LEB. To verify the computed checksum it has to read
the LEB's volume header which stores the original checksum.
If the volume header is not found UBI treats this as fatal internal
error and switches to RO mode. If the UBI device was attached via a
full scan the assumption is correct, the volume header has to be
present as it had to be there while scanning to get known as mapped.
If the attach operation happened via Fastmap the assumption is no
longer correct. When attaching via Fastmap UBI learns the mapping
table from Fastmap's snapshot of the system state and not via a full
scan. It can happen that a LEB got unmapped after a Fastmap was
written to the flash. Then UBI can learn the LEB still as mapped and
accessing it returns only 0xFF bytes. As UBI is not a FTL it is
allowed to have mappings to empty PEBs, it assumes that the layer
above takes care of LEB accounting and referencing.
UBIFS does so using the LEB property tree (LPT).
For static volumes UBI blindly assumes that all LEBs are present and
therefore special actions have to be taken.

The described situation can happen when updating a static volume is
interrupted, either by a user or a power cut.
The volume update code first unmaps all LEBs of a volume and then
writes LEB by LEB. If the sequence of operations is interrupted UBI
detects this either by the absence of LEBs, no volume header present
at scan time, or corrupted payload, detected via checksum.
In the Fastmap case the former method won't trigger as no scan
happened and UBI automatically thinks all LEBs are present.
Only by reading data from a LEB it detects that the volume header is
missing and incorrectly treats this as fatal error.
To deal with the situation ubi_eba_read_leb() from now on checks
whether we attached via Fastmap and handles the absence of a
volume header like a data corruption error.
This way interrupted static volume updates will correctly get detected
also when Fastmap is used.

Reported-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20160415' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2016-04-15T22:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-15T22:25:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=29dde7c25adafcdcbde3a14bce3f07e5a201dc30'/>
<id>29dde7c25adafcdcbde3a14bce3f07e5a201dc30</id>
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Pull MTD fix from Brian Norris:
 "One MTD fix for v4.6-rc4:

  In the v4.4 cycle, we relaxed the requirement for assigning
  mtd-&gt;owner, but we didn't remove this error case.  It's hit only
  by drivers that are both:

   (a) using nand_scan() directly
  and
   (b) built as modules

  We haven't seen explicit complaints about this (most use cases don't
  fit one or both of the above), but we should definitely not be
  BUG()'ing here"

* tag 'for-linus-20160415' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  mtd: nand: Drop mtd.owner requirement in nand_scan
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<pre>
Pull MTD fix from Brian Norris:
 "One MTD fix for v4.6-rc4:

  In the v4.4 cycle, we relaxed the requirement for assigning
  mtd-&gt;owner, but we didn't remove this error case.  It's hit only
  by drivers that are both:

   (a) using nand_scan() directly
  and
   (b) built as modules

  We haven't seen explicit complaints about this (most use cases don't
  fit one or both of the above), but we should definitely not be
  BUG()'ing here"

* tag 'for-linus-20160415' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  mtd: nand: Drop mtd.owner requirement in nand_scan
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=09cbfeaf1a5a67bfb3201e0c83c810cecb2efa5a'/>
<id>09cbfeaf1a5a67bfb3201e0c83c810cecb2efa5a</id>
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: nand: Drop mtd.owner requirement in nand_scan</title>
<updated>2016-04-03T06:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ezequiel García</name>
<email>ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T21:29:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=20c07a5bf094198ff2382aa5e7c930b3c9807792'/>
<id>20c07a5bf094198ff2382aa5e7c930b3c9807792</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit 807f16d4db95 ("mtd: core: set some defaults
when dev.parent is set"), it's now legal for drivers
to call nand_scan and nand_scan_ident without setting
mtd.owner.

Drop the check and while at it remove the BUG() abuse.

Fixes: 807f16d4db95 ("mtd: core: set some defaults when dev.parent is set")
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
[Brian: editorial note - while commit 807f16d4db95 wasn't explicitly
    broken, some follow-up commits in the v4.4 release broke a few
    drivers, since they would hit this BUG() if they used nand_scan()
    and were built as modules]
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
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Since commit 807f16d4db95 ("mtd: core: set some defaults
when dev.parent is set"), it's now legal for drivers
to call nand_scan and nand_scan_ident without setting
mtd.owner.

Drop the check and while at it remove the BUG() abuse.

Fixes: 807f16d4db95 ("mtd: core: set some defaults when dev.parent is set")
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
[Brian: editorial note - while commit 807f16d4db95 wasn't explicitly
    broken, some follow-up commits in the v4.4 release broke a few
    drivers, since they would hit this BUG() if they used nand_scan()
    and were built as modules]
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20160324' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T02:57:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T02:57:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8f40842e4260f73792c156aded004197a19135ee'/>
<id>8f40842e4260f73792c156aded004197a19135ee</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "NAND:
   - Add sunxi_nand randomizer support
   - begin refactoring NAND ecclayout structs
   - fix pxa3xx_nand dmaengine usage
   - brcmnand: fix support for v7.1 controller
   - add Qualcomm NAND controller driver

  SPI NOR:
   - add new ls1021a, ls2080a support to Freescale QuadSPI
   - add new flash ID entries
   - support bottom-block protection for Winbond flash
   - support Status Register Write Protect
   - remove broken QPI support for Micron SPI flash

  JFFS2:
   - improve post-mount CRC scan efficiency

  General:
   - refactor bcm63xxpart parser, to later extend for NAND
   - add writebuf size parameter to mtdram

  Other minor code quality improvements"

* tag 'for-linus-20160324' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (72 commits)
  mtd: nand: remove kerneldoc for removed function parameter
  mtd: nand: Qualcomm NAND controller driver
  dt/bindings: qcom_nandc: Add DT bindings
  mtd: nand: don't select chip in nand_chip's block_bad op
  mtd: spi-nor: support lock/unlock for a few Winbond chips
  mtd: spi-nor: add TB (Top/Bottom) protect support
  mtd: spi-nor: add SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK flag
  mtd: spi-nor: use BIT() for flash_info flags
  mtd: spi-nor: disallow further writes to SR if WP# is low
  mtd: spi-nor: make lock/unlock bounds checks more obvious and robust
  mtd: spi-nor: silently drop lock/unlock for already locked/unlocked region
  mtd: spi-nor: wait for SR_WIP to clear on initial unlock
  mtd: nand: simplify nand_bch_init() usage
  mtd: mtdswap: remove useless if (!mtd-&gt;ecclayout) test
  mtd: create an mtd_oobavail() helper and make use of it
  mtd: kill the ecclayout-&gt;oobavail field
  mtd: nand: check status before reporting timeout
  mtd: bcm63xxpart: give width specifier an 'int', not 'size_t'
  mtd: mtdram: Add parameter for setting writebuf size
  mtd: nand: pxa3xx_nand: kill unused field 'drcmr_cmd'
  ...
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Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "NAND:
   - Add sunxi_nand randomizer support
   - begin refactoring NAND ecclayout structs
   - fix pxa3xx_nand dmaengine usage
   - brcmnand: fix support for v7.1 controller
   - add Qualcomm NAND controller driver

  SPI NOR:
   - add new ls1021a, ls2080a support to Freescale QuadSPI
   - add new flash ID entries
   - support bottom-block protection for Winbond flash
   - support Status Register Write Protect
   - remove broken QPI support for Micron SPI flash

  JFFS2:
   - improve post-mount CRC scan efficiency

  General:
   - refactor bcm63xxpart parser, to later extend for NAND
   - add writebuf size parameter to mtdram

  Other minor code quality improvements"

* tag 'for-linus-20160324' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (72 commits)
  mtd: nand: remove kerneldoc for removed function parameter
  mtd: nand: Qualcomm NAND controller driver
  dt/bindings: qcom_nandc: Add DT bindings
  mtd: nand: don't select chip in nand_chip's block_bad op
  mtd: spi-nor: support lock/unlock for a few Winbond chips
  mtd: spi-nor: add TB (Top/Bottom) protect support
  mtd: spi-nor: add SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK flag
  mtd: spi-nor: use BIT() for flash_info flags
  mtd: spi-nor: disallow further writes to SR if WP# is low
  mtd: spi-nor: make lock/unlock bounds checks more obvious and robust
  mtd: spi-nor: silently drop lock/unlock for already locked/unlocked region
  mtd: spi-nor: wait for SR_WIP to clear on initial unlock
  mtd: nand: simplify nand_bch_init() usage
  mtd: mtdswap: remove useless if (!mtd-&gt;ecclayout) test
  mtd: create an mtd_oobavail() helper and make use of it
  mtd: kill the ecclayout-&gt;oobavail field
  mtd: nand: check status before reporting timeout
  mtd: bcm63xxpart: give width specifier an 'int', not 'size_t'
  mtd: mtdram: Add parameter for setting writebuf size
  mtd: nand: pxa3xx_nand: kill unused field 'drcmr_cmd'
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: ubi: Add logging functions ubi_msg, ubi_warn and ubi_err</title>
<updated>2016-03-20T20:36:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-25T17:25:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58d303def2a1fbfb5c794bafe7da54b900d9694e'/>
<id>58d303def2a1fbfb5c794bafe7da54b900d9694e</id>
<content type='text'>
Using logging functions instead of macros can reduce overall object size.

$ size drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 271620	 163364	  73696	 508680	  7c308	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.allyesconfig.new
 287638	 165380	  73504	 526522	  808ba	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.allyesconfig.old
  87728	   3780	    504	  92012	  1676c	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.defconfig.new
  97084	   3780	    504	 101368	  18bf8	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.defconfig.old

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Using logging functions instead of macros can reduce overall object size.

$ size drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 271620	 163364	  73696	 508680	  7c308	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.allyesconfig.new
 287638	 165380	  73504	 526522	  808ba	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.allyesconfig.old
  87728	   3780	    504	  92012	  1676c	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.defconfig.new
  97084	   3780	    504	 101368	  18bf8	drivers/mtd/ubi/built-in.o.defconfig.old

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T04:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T04:05:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1a46712aa99594eabe1e9aeedf115dfff0db1dfd'/>
<id>1a46712aa99594eabe1e9aeedf115dfff0db1dfd</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6.  There is quite a
  lot of interesting stuff going on.

  The patches to other subsystems and arch-wide are ACKed as far as
  possible, though I consider things like per-arch &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt; as
  essentially a part of the GPIO subsystem so it should not be needed.

  Core changes:

   - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*.  Until now the gpio chips
     were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
     space outside of the device model.

     We now finally make GPIO chips devices.  The gpio_chip will create
     a gpio_device which contains a struct device, and this gpio_device
     struct is kept private.  Anything that needs to be kept private
     from the rest of the kernel will gradually be moved over to the
     gpio_device.

   - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
     resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
     overhead and reduce code lines.  A huge slew of patches convert
     almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

   - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step of
     a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device.  We take small
     steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
     "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
     lines on these devices.

     We can now discover GPIOs properly from userspace.  We still have
     not come up with a way to actually *use* GPIOs from userspace.

   - To encourage people to use the character device for the future, we
     have it always-enabled when using GPIO.  The old sysfs ABI is still
     opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as deprecated.

     We will keep it around for the foreseeable future, but it will not
     be extended to cover ever more use cases.

  Cleanup:

   - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt;
     includes.

     This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and no shared
     library even existed: just a header file with proper prototypes was
     provided and all semantics were up to the arch to implement.  These
     patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper device and cleans out
     leftovers of the old in-kernel API here and there.

     Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

   - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going on,
     but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers and
     the errorpath is sanitized.  Some patches for powerpc, blackfin and
     unicore still drop in.

   - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
     implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
     lines.

   - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

   - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

  New drivers:

   - WinSystems WS16C48

   - Acces 104-DIO-48E

   - F81866 (a F7188x variant)

   - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

   - TS-4800

   - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected to
     SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

   - Texas Instruments TPIC2810

   - Texas Instruments TPS65218

   - Texas Instruments TPS65912

   - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller"

* tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (194 commits)
  Revert "Share upstreaming patches"
  gpio: mcp23s08: Fix clearing of interrupt.
  gpiolib: Fix comment referring to gpio_*() in gpiod_*()
  gpio: pca953x: Fix pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() on 64-bit
  gpio: xgene: Fix kconfig for standby GIPO contoller
  gpio: Add generic serializer DT binding
  gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major
  gpio: tps65912: fix bad merge
  Revert "gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free"
  gpio: omap: drop dev field from gpio_bank structure
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Slightly update the code for better readability
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Remove *read_reg and *write_reg from struct mpc8xxx_gpio_chip
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Fixup setting gpio direction output
  gpio: mcp23s08: Add support for mcp23s18
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: Fix altr,interrupt-type property
  gpio: add driver for MEN 16Z127 GPIO controller
  gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free
  gpio: timberdale: Switch to devm_ioremap_resource()
  gpio: ts4800: Add IMX51 dependency
  gpiolib: rewrite gpiodev_add_to_list
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6.  There is quite a
  lot of interesting stuff going on.

  The patches to other subsystems and arch-wide are ACKed as far as
  possible, though I consider things like per-arch &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt; as
  essentially a part of the GPIO subsystem so it should not be needed.

  Core changes:

   - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*.  Until now the gpio chips
     were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
     space outside of the device model.

     We now finally make GPIO chips devices.  The gpio_chip will create
     a gpio_device which contains a struct device, and this gpio_device
     struct is kept private.  Anything that needs to be kept private
     from the rest of the kernel will gradually be moved over to the
     gpio_device.

   - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
     resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
     overhead and reduce code lines.  A huge slew of patches convert
     almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

   - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step of
     a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device.  We take small
     steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
     "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
     lines on these devices.

     We can now discover GPIOs properly from userspace.  We still have
     not come up with a way to actually *use* GPIOs from userspace.

   - To encourage people to use the character device for the future, we
     have it always-enabled when using GPIO.  The old sysfs ABI is still
     opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as deprecated.

     We will keep it around for the foreseeable future, but it will not
     be extended to cover ever more use cases.

  Cleanup:

   - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt;
     includes.

     This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and no shared
     library even existed: just a header file with proper prototypes was
     provided and all semantics were up to the arch to implement.  These
     patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper device and cleans out
     leftovers of the old in-kernel API here and there.

     Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

   - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going on,
     but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers and
     the errorpath is sanitized.  Some patches for powerpc, blackfin and
     unicore still drop in.

   - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
     implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
     lines.

   - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

   - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

  New drivers:

   - WinSystems WS16C48

   - Acces 104-DIO-48E

   - F81866 (a F7188x variant)

   - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

   - TS-4800

   - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected to
     SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

   - Texas Instruments TPIC2810

   - Texas Instruments TPS65218

   - Texas Instruments TPS65912

   - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller"

* tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (194 commits)
  Revert "Share upstreaming patches"
  gpio: mcp23s08: Fix clearing of interrupt.
  gpiolib: Fix comment referring to gpio_*() in gpiod_*()
  gpio: pca953x: Fix pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() on 64-bit
  gpio: xgene: Fix kconfig for standby GIPO contoller
  gpio: Add generic serializer DT binding
  gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major
  gpio: tps65912: fix bad merge
  Revert "gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free"
  gpio: omap: drop dev field from gpio_bank structure
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Slightly update the code for better readability
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Remove *read_reg and *write_reg from struct mpc8xxx_gpio_chip
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Fixup setting gpio direction output
  gpio: mcp23s08: Add support for mcp23s18
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: Fix altr,interrupt-type property
  gpio: add driver for MEN 16Z127 GPIO controller
  gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free
  gpio: timberdale: Switch to devm_ioremap_resource()
  gpio: ts4800: Add IMX51 dependency
  gpiolib: rewrite gpiodev_add_to_list
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20160311' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2016-03-12T00:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-12T00:34:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=03c668a93187fe7fba9464f96fbe7c22eebd9897'/>
<id>03c668a93187fe7fba9464f96fbe7c22eebd9897</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MTD fixes from Brian Norris:
 "Late MTD fix for v4.5:

   - A simple error code handling fix for the NAND ECC test; this was a
     regression in v4.5-rc1

   - A MAINTAINERS update, which might as well go in ASAP"

* tag 'for-linus-20160311' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the NAND subsystem
  mtd: nand: tests: fix regression introduced in mtd_nandectest
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MTD fixes from Brian Norris:
 "Late MTD fix for v4.5:

   - A simple error code handling fix for the NAND ECC test; this was a
     regression in v4.5-rc1

   - A MAINTAINERS update, which might as well go in ASAP"

* tag 'for-linus-20160311' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  MAINTAINERS: add a maintainer for the NAND subsystem
  mtd: nand: tests: fix regression introduced in mtd_nandectest
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: nand: remove kerneldoc for removed function parameter</title>
<updated>2016-03-11T17:41:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Norris</name>
<email>computersforpeace@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T20:47:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6871c1b96de88d3576d935b528fd1b0ec70e81f5'/>
<id>6871c1b96de88d3576d935b528fd1b0ec70e81f5</id>
<content type='text'>
The 'getchip' parameter is gone as of commit 9f3e04297b08 ("mtd: nand:
don't select chip in nand_chip's block_bad op"), so kill the doc with
it.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The 'getchip' parameter is gone as of commit 9f3e04297b08 ("mtd: nand:
don't select chip in nand_chip's block_bad op"), so kill the doc with
it.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: nand: Qualcomm NAND controller driver</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T19:02:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Archit Taneja</name>
<email>architt@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-03T08:59:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c76b78d8ec05a247975542061df3f1321783f98d'/>
<id>c76b78d8ec05a247975542061df3f1321783f98d</id>
<content type='text'>
The Qualcomm NAND controller is found in SoCs like IPQ806x, MSM7xx,
MDM9x15 series.

It exists as a sub block inside the IPs EBI2 (External Bus Interface 2)
and QPIC (Qualcomm Parallel Interface Controller). These IPs provide a
broader interface for external slow peripheral devices such as LCD and
NAND/NOR flash memory or SRAM like interfaces.

We add support for the NAND controller found within EBI2. For the SoCs
of our interest, we only use the NAND controller within EBI2. Therefore,
it's safe for us to assume that the NAND controller is a standalone block
within the SoC.

The controller supports 512B, 2kB, 4kB and 8kB page 8-bit and 16-bit NAND
flash devices. It contains a HW ECC block that supports BCH ECC (4, 8 and
16 bit correction/step) and RS ECC(4 bit correction/step) that covers main
and spare data. The controller contains an internal 512 byte page buffer
to which we read/write via DMA. The EBI2 type NAND controller uses ADM DMA
for register read/write and data transfers. The controller performs page
reads and writes at a codeword/step level of 512 bytes. It can support up
to 2 external chips of different configurations.

The driver prepares register read and write configuration descriptors for
each codeword, followed by data descriptors to read or write data from the
controller's internal buffer. It uses a single ADM DMA channel that we get
via dmaengine API. The controller requires 2 ADM CRCIs for command and
data flow control. These are passed via DT.

The ecc layout used by the controller is syndrome like, but we can't use
the standard syndrome ecc ops because of several reasons. First, the amount
of data bytes covered by ecc isn't same in each step. Second, writing to
free oob space requires us writing to the entire step in which the oob
lies. This forces us to create our own ecc ops.

One more difference is how the controller accesses the bad block marker.
The controller ignores reading the marker when ECC is enabled. ECC needs
to be explicity disabled to read or write to the bad block marker. The
nand_bbt helpers library hence can't access BBMs for the controller.
For now, we skip the creation of BBT and populate chip-&gt;block_bad and
chip-&gt;block_markbad helpers instead.

Reviewed-by: Andy Gross &lt;agross@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Archit Taneja &lt;architt@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The Qualcomm NAND controller is found in SoCs like IPQ806x, MSM7xx,
MDM9x15 series.

It exists as a sub block inside the IPs EBI2 (External Bus Interface 2)
and QPIC (Qualcomm Parallel Interface Controller). These IPs provide a
broader interface for external slow peripheral devices such as LCD and
NAND/NOR flash memory or SRAM like interfaces.

We add support for the NAND controller found within EBI2. For the SoCs
of our interest, we only use the NAND controller within EBI2. Therefore,
it's safe for us to assume that the NAND controller is a standalone block
within the SoC.

The controller supports 512B, 2kB, 4kB and 8kB page 8-bit and 16-bit NAND
flash devices. It contains a HW ECC block that supports BCH ECC (4, 8 and
16 bit correction/step) and RS ECC(4 bit correction/step) that covers main
and spare data. The controller contains an internal 512 byte page buffer
to which we read/write via DMA. The EBI2 type NAND controller uses ADM DMA
for register read/write and data transfers. The controller performs page
reads and writes at a codeword/step level of 512 bytes. It can support up
to 2 external chips of different configurations.

The driver prepares register read and write configuration descriptors for
each codeword, followed by data descriptors to read or write data from the
controller's internal buffer. It uses a single ADM DMA channel that we get
via dmaengine API. The controller requires 2 ADM CRCIs for command and
data flow control. These are passed via DT.

The ecc layout used by the controller is syndrome like, but we can't use
the standard syndrome ecc ops because of several reasons. First, the amount
of data bytes covered by ecc isn't same in each step. Second, writing to
free oob space requires us writing to the entire step in which the oob
lies. This forces us to create our own ecc ops.

One more difference is how the controller accesses the bad block marker.
The controller ignores reading the marker when ECC is enabled. ECC needs
to be explicity disabled to read or write to the bad block marker. The
nand_bbt helpers library hence can't access BBMs for the controller.
For now, we skip the creation of BBT and populate chip-&gt;block_bad and
chip-&gt;block_markbad helpers instead.

Reviewed-by: Andy Gross &lt;agross@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Archit Taneja &lt;architt@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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