linux.git/drivers/mtd/ubi, branch v2.6.32

UBI: fix check on unsigned long

2009-10-20T07:13:49+00:00

result is unsigned, the wrong check was used.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: fix backward compatibility

2009-10-20T07:13:04+00:00

Commit 32bc4820287a1a03982979515949e8ea56eac641 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

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2009-09-22T14:51:45+00:00

* '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/
  ...

trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files

2009-09-21T13:14:55+00:00

Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

UBI: improve NOR flash erasure quirk

2009-08-14T17:02:20+00:00

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.

UBI: introduce flash dump helper

2009-08-14T17:02:20+00:00

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

UBI: eliminate possible undefined behaviour

2009-08-14T17:01:36+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: print a warning if too many PEBs are corrupted

2009-08-14T17:01:36+00:00

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

UBI: amend NOR flash pre-erase quirk

2009-08-14T17:01:36+00:00

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

UBI: print a message if ECH is corrupted and VIDH is ok

2009-08-14T17:01:35+00:00

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