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Artem Bityutskiy
e11602ea3e UBIFS: share the next_log_lnum helper
We'll need to use the 'next_log_lnum()' helper function from log.c in the fixup
code, so let's move it to misc.h. IOW, this is a preparation to the following
free space fixup changes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-05-16 14:12:12 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b50b9f4085 UBIFS: do not free write-buffers when in R/O mode
Currently UBIFS has a small optimization - it frees write-buffers when it is
re-mounted from R/W mode to R/O mode. Of course, when it is mounted R/O, it
does not allocate write-buffers as well.

This optimization is nice but it leads to subtle problems and complications
in recovery, which I can reproduce using the integck test. The symptoms are
that after a power cut the file-system cannot be mounted if we first mount
it R/O, and then re-mount R/W - 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' prints:

UBIFS error (pid 34456): could not find an empty LEB

Analysis of the  problem.

When mounting R/W, the reply process sets journal heads to buds [1], but
when mounting R/O - it does not do this, because the write-buffers are not
allocated. So 'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()' works completely differently for the
same file-system but for the following 2 cases:

1. mounting R/W after a power cut and recover
2. mounting R/O after a power cut, re-mounting R/W and run deferred recovery

In the former case, we have journal heads seeked to the a bud, in the latter
case, they are non-seeked (wbuf->lnum == -1). So in the latter case we do not
try to recover the GC LEB by garbage-collecting to the GC head, but we just
try to find an empty LEB, and there may be no empty LEBs, so we just fail.
On the other hand, in the former case (mount R/W), we are able to make a GC LEB
(@c->gc_lnum) by garbage-collecting.

Thus, let's remove this small nice optimization and always allocate
write-buffers. This should not make too big difference - we have only 3
of them, each of max. write unit size, which is usually 2KiB. So this is
about 6KiB of RAM for the typical case, and only when mounted R/O.

[1]: Note, currently the replay process is setting (seeking) the journal heads
to _some_ buds, not necessarily to the buds which had been the journal heads
before the power cut happened. This will be fixed separately.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-05-02 19:23:36 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2ef13294d2 UBIFS: introduce new flags for RO mounts
Commit 2fde99cb55 "UBIFS: mark VFS SB RO too"
introduced regression. This commit made UBIFS set the 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the
VFS superblock when it switches to R/O mode due to an error. This was done
to make VFS show the R/O UBIFS flag in /proc/mounts.

However, several places in UBIFS relied on the 'MS_RDONLY' flag and assume this
flag can only change when we re-mount. For example, 'ubifs_put_super()'.

This patch introduces new UBIFS flag - 'c->ro_mount' which changes only when
we re-mount, and preserves the way UBIFS was originally mounted (R/W or R/O).
This allows us to de-initialize UBIFS cleanly in 'ubifs_put_super()'.

This patch also changes all 'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)' assertions to
'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media && !c->ro_mount)', because we never should write
anything if the FS was mounter R/O.

All the places where we test for 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the VFS SB were changed
and now we test the 'c->ro_mount' flag instead, because it preserves the
original UBIFS mount type, unlike the 'MS_RDONLY' flag.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-09-19 21:07:58 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
2680d722bf UBIFS: introduce new flag for RO due to errors
The R/O state may have various reasons:

1. The UBI volume is R/O
2. The FS is mounted R/O
3. The FS switched to R/O mode because of an error

However, in UBIFS we have only one variable which represents cases
1 and 3 - 'c->ro_media'. Indeed, we set this to 1 if we switch to
R/O mode due to an error, and then we test it in many places to
make sure that we stop writing as soon as the error happens.

But this is very unclean. One consequence of this, for example, is
that in 'ubifs_remount_fs()' we use 'c->ro_media' to check whether
we are in R/O mode because on an error, and we print a message
in this case. However, if we are in R/O mode because the media
is R/O, our message is bogus.

This patch introduces new flag - 'c->ro_error' which is set when
we switch to R/O mode because of an error. It also changes all
"if (c->ro_media)" checks to "if (c->ro_error)" checks, because
this is what the checks actually mean. We do not need to check
for 'c->ro_media' because if the UBI volume is in R/O mode, we
do not allow R/W mounting, and now writes can happen. This is
guaranteed by VFS. But it is good to double-check this, so this
patch also adds many "ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)" checks.

In the 'ubifs_remount_fs()' function this patch makes a bit more
changes - it fixes the error messages as well.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-09-17 17:08:09 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
77a7ae580c UBIFS: improve journal head debugging prints
Convert the journal head integer into the head name when printing
debugging information.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-09-15 17:05:06 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
348709bad3 UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly
At the moment UBIFS print large and scary error messages and
flash dumps in case of nearly any corruption, even if it is
a recoverable corruption. For example, if the master node is
corrupted, ubifs_scan() prints error dumps, then UBIFS recovers
just fine and goes on.

This patch makes UBIFS print scary error messages only in
real cases, which are not recoverable. It adds 'quiet' argument
to the 'ubifs_scan()' function, so the caller may ask 'ubi_scan()'
not to print error messages if the caller is able to do recovery.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
2009-09-10 12:06:47 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
7d4e9ccb43 UBIFS: fix commentaries
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-03-20 19:11:12 +02:00
Eric Sesterhenn
ec32816f94 UBIFS: list usage cleanup
Trivial cleanup, list_del(); list_add{,_tail}() is equivalent
to list_move{,_tail}(). Semantic patch for coccinelle can be
found at www.cccmz.de/~snakebyte/list_move_tail.spatch

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2009-02-17 12:45:22 +02:00
Artem Bityutskiy
014eb04b03 UBIFS: increment commit number earlier
Increment the commit number at the beginnig of the commit, instead
of doing this after the commit. This is needed for further
optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-08-13 11:27:47 +03:00
Adrian Hunter
2fb42b11f6 UBIFS: ensure UBIFS switches to read-only on error
UBI transparently handles write errors by automatically copying
and remapping the affected eraseblock. If UBI is unable to do
that, for example its pool of eraseblocks reserved for bad block
handling is empty, then the error is propagated to UBIFS. UBIFS
must protect the media from falling into an inconsistent state
by immediately switching to read-only mode. In the case of log
updates, this was not being done.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-08-13 11:24:00 +03:00
Artem Bityutskiy
1e51764a3c UBIFS: add new flash file system
This is a new flash file system. See
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
2008-07-15 17:35:15 +03:00