linux.git/drivers/mtd/ubi, branch v2.6.24

Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks

2007-10-19T18:53:43+00:00

The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters

2007-10-17T15:42:45+00:00

Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6

2007-10-14T13:29:00+00:00

UBI: return correct error code

2007-10-14T10:10:21+00:00

Fix the following warning:

drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c: In function 'ubi_eba_init_scan':
drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c:1116: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

Pointed-to-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: remove useless inlines

2007-10-14T10:10:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: fix atomic LEB change problems

2007-10-14T10:10:21+00:00

When the UBI device is nearly full, i.e. all LEBs are mapped, we have
only one spare LEB left - the one we reserved for WL purposes. Well,
I do not count the LEBs which were reserved for bad PEB handling -
suppose NOR flash for simplicity. If an "atomic LEB change operation"
is run, and the WL unit is moving a LEB, we have no spare LEBs to
finish the operation and fail, which is not good. Moreover, if there
are 2 or more simultanious "atomic LEB change" requests, only one of
them has chances to succeed, the other will fail with -ENOSPC. Not
good either.

This patch does 2 things:
1. Reserves one PEB for the "atomic LEB change" operation.
2. Serealize the operations so that only on of them may run
   at a time (by means of a mutex).

Pointed-to-by: Brijesh Singh 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: use byte hexdump

2007-10-14T10:10:21+00:00

More handy since word hexdump prints in host endian.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: do not use vmalloc on I/O path

2007-10-14T10:10:21+00:00

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

UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS

2007-10-14T10:10:20+00:00

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

UBI: use linux print_hex_dump(), not home-grown one

2007-10-14T10:10:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy