Let's not attempt the abolition of mtd->type until/unless it's properly
thought through. And certainly, let's not do it by halves.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Ram devices get the extra capability of MTD_NO_ERASE - not requiring
an explicit erase before writing to it. Currently only mtdblock uses
this capability. Rest of the patch is a simple text replacement.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
No mtd user should ever check for the device type. Instead, device features
should be checked by the flags - if at all.
As a first step towards type removal, change MTD_ROM into MTD_GENERIC_TYPE.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
The raw read/write access to NAND (without ECC) has been changed in the
NAND rework. Expose the new way - setting the file mode via ioctl - to
userspace. Also allow to read out the ecc statistics information so userspace
tools can see that bitflips happened and whether errors where correctable
or not. Also expose the number of bad blocks for the partition, so nandwrite
can check if the data fits into the parition before writing to it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Hopefully the last iteration on this!
The handling of out of band data on NAND was accompanied by tons of fruitless
discussions and halfarsed patches to make it work for a particular
problem. Sufficiently annoyed by I all those "I know it better" mails and the
resonable amount of discarded "it solves my problem" patches, I finally decided
to go for the big rework. After removing the _ecc variants of mtd read/write
functions the solution to satisfy the various requirements was to refactor the
read/write _oob functions in mtd.
The major change is that read/write_oob now takes a pointer to an operation
descriptor structure "struct mtd_oob_ops".instead of having a function with at
least seven arguments.
read/write_oob which should probably renamed to a more descriptive name, can do
the following tasks:
- read/write out of band data
- read/write data content and out of band data
- read/write raw data content and out of band data (ecc disabled)
struct mtd_oob_ops has a mode field, which determines the oob handling mode.
Aside of the MTD_OOB_RAW mode, which is intended to be especially for
diagnostic purposes and some internal functions e.g. bad block table creation,
the other two modes are for mtd clients:
MTD_OOB_PLACE puts/gets the given oob data exactly to/from the place which is
described by the ooboffs and ooblen fields of the mtd_oob_ops strcuture. It's
up to the caller to make sure that the byte positions are not used by the ECC
placement algorithms.
MTD_OOB_AUTO puts/gets the given oob data automaticaly to/from the places in
the out of band area which are described by the oobfree tuples in the ecclayout
data structre which is associated to the devicee.
The decision whether data plus oob or oob only handling is done depends on the
setting of the datbuf member of the data structure. When datbuf == NULL then
the internal read/write_oob functions are selected, otherwise the read/write
data routines are invoked.
Tested on a few platforms with all variants. Please be aware of possible
regressions for your particular device / application scenario
Disclaimer: Any whining will be ignored from those who just contributed "hot
air blurb" and never sat down to tackle the underlying problem of the mess in
the NAND driver grown over time and the big chunk of work to fix up the
existing users. The problem was not the holiness of the existing MTD
interfaces. The problems was the lack of time to go for the big overhaul. It's
easy to add more mess to the existing one, but it takes alot of effort to go
for a real solution.
Improvements and bugfixes are welcome!
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Most of those macros are unused and the used ones just obfuscate
the code. Remove them and fixup all users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The nand_oobinfo structure is not fitting the newer error correction
demands anymore. Replace it by struct nand_ecclayout and fixup the users
all over the place. Keep the nand_oobinfo based ioctl for user space
compability reasons.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The info structure for out of band data was copied into
the mtd structure. Make it a pointer and remove the ability
to set it from userspace. The position of ecc bytes is
defined by the hardware and should not be changed by software.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The platform structure was lacking an oobinfo field.
The NDFC driver had some remains from another tree.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Modularize the write function and reorganaize the internal buffer
management. Remove obsolete chip options and fixup all affected
users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Split the core of the read function out and implement
seperate handling functions for software and hardware
ECC.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add read/write function pointers to struct nand_ecc_ctrl to
prepare the modulaization of nand_read/write functions. The
current implementation handles every type of ecc mode
software/hardware and all kinds of strange ecc placement
schemes in one switch/if construct. Thats too complex to
maintain and too inflexible to expand. Modularization will
also shorten the code pathes of the read/write functions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
FLASH - especially NAND FLASH - will become less reliable
and bit flips more likely. Add an ECC statistics struct
to struct mtd_info to keep track of this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The nand driver has a superflous read ready / command
delay in the read functions. This was added to handle
chips which have an automatic read forward. Newer
chips do not have this functionality anymore. Add this
option to avoid the delay / I/O operation. Mark all
large page chips with the new option flag.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The previous change of the command / hardware control allows to
remove the write_byte/word functions completely, as their only
user were nand_command and nand_command_lp.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The hwcontrol function enforced a step by step state machine
for any kind of hardware chip access. Let the hardware driver
know which control bits are set and inform it about a change
of the control lines. Let the hardware driver write out the
command and address bytes directly. This gives a peformance
advantage for address bus controlled chips and simplifies the
quirks in the hardware drivers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
MTD clients are agnostic of FLASH which needs ECC suppport.
Remove the functions and fixup the callers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
First step of modularizing ECC support.
- Move ECC related functionality into a seperate embedded data structure
- Get rid of the hardware dependend constants to simplify new ECC models
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The NAND driver used a mix of unsigned char, u_char amd uint8_t
data types. Consolidate to uint8_t usage
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Replace the chip lock by a the controller lock. For simple drivers a
dummy controller structure is created by the scan code.
This simplifies the locking algorithm in nand_get/release_chip().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
o Add a flag MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE for devices that allow single bits to be
cleared.
o Replace MTD_PROGRAM_REGIONS with a cleared MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE flag for
STMicro and Intel Sibley flashes with internal ECC. Those flashes
disallow clearing of single bits, unlike regular NOR flashes, so the
new flag models their behaviour better.
o Remove MTD_ECC. After the STMicro/Sibley merge, this flag is only set
and never checked.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
At least two flashes exists that have the concept of a minimum write unit,
similar to NAND pages, but no other NAND characteristics. Therefore, rename
the minimum write unit to "writesize" for all flashes, including NAND.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Two flags exist to decide whether a device is writeable or not. None of
those two flags is checked for independently, so they are clearly redundant,
if not an invitation to bugs. This patch removed both of them, replacing
them with a single new flag.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Device node major/minor numbers are just stored in the payload of a single
data node. Just extend that to 4 bytes and use new_encode_dev() for it.
We only use the 4-byte format if we _need_ to, if !old_valid_dev(foo).
This preserves backwards compatibility with older code as much as
possible. If we do make devices with major or minor numbers above 255, and
then mount the file system with the old code, it'll just read the first
two bytes and get the numbers wrong. If it comes to garbage-collect it,
it'll then write back those wrong numbers. But that's about the best we
can expect.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
We have to pack at least the jint16_t structure, because otherwise it'll
be four bytes in size. Thankfully, we can do that and _not_ pack the
actual node structures, and the compiler still doesn't emit stupid code.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
can_share_swap_page() is used to check if the page has the last reference.
This avoids allocating a new page for COW if it's the last page.
However, if CONFIG_SWAP is not set, can_share_swap_page() is defined as 0,
thus always causes a copy for the last COW page. The below simple patch
fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
slab_is_available() indicates slab based allocators are available for use.
SPARSEMEM code needs to know this as it can be called at various times
during the boot process.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Even since a previous patch:
Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000)
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe
The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel.
symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call
two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try
to acquire the same lock. This deadlocks the kernel of course.
This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it
doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly. Also, it
now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address(). The latter has
an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that
since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address
uses) ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add new vmsplice system call and add missing __NR_xxx defines for
sys_set_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list, sys_splice, sys_sync_file_range
and sys_tee.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface. This can be used to tell if there
will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer.
This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu
would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called
on a different cpu.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If we use __attribute__((packed)), GCC will _also_ assume that the
structures aren't sensibly aligned, and it'll emit code to cope with
that instead of straight word load/save. This can be _very_ suboptimal
on architectures like ARM.
Ideally, we want an attribute which just tells GCC not to do any
padding, without the alignment side-effects. In the absense of that,
we'll just drop the 'packed' attribute and hope that everything stays as
it was (which to be fair is fairly much what we expect). And add some
paranoia checks in the initialisation code, which should be optimised
away completely in the normal case.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).
There are some significant differences from previous version posted
at last December.
The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.
In addition, some bugs are fixed.
- A potential race condition was fixed.
- Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
- A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.
The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
and updated if necessary.
Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.
[1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
[2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
The classical IP over ATM code maintains its own IPv4 <-> <ATM stuff>
ARP table, using the standard neighbour-table code. The
neigh_table_init function adds this neighbour table to a linked list
of all neighbor tables which is used by the functions neigh_delete()
neigh_add() and neightbl_set(), all called by the netlink code.
Once the ATM neighbour table is added to the list, there are two
tables with family == AF_INET there, and ARP entries sent via netlink
go into the first table with matching family. This is indeterminate
and often wrong.
To see the bug, on a kernel with CLIP enabled, create a standard IPv4
ARP entry by pinging an unused address on a local subnet. Then attempt
to complete that entry by doing
ip neigh replace <ip address> lladdr <some mac address> nud reachable
Looking at the ARP tables by using
ip neigh show
will reveal two ARP entries for the same address. One of these can be
found in /proc/net/arp, and the other in /proc/net/atm/arp.
This patch adds a new function, neigh_table_init_no_netlink() which
does everything the neigh_table_init() does, except add the table to
the netlink all-arp-tables chain. In addition neigh_table_init() has a
check that all tables on the chain have a distinct address family.
The init call in clip.c is changed to call
neigh_table_init_no_netlink().
Since ATM ARP tables are rather more complicated than can currently be
handled by the available rtattrs in the netlink protocol, no
functionality is lost by this patch, and non-ATM ARP manipulation via
netlink is rescued. A more complete solution would involve a rtattr
for ATM ARP entries and some way for the netlink code to give
neigh_add and friends more information than just address family with
which to find the correct ARP table.
[ I've changed the assertion checking in neigh_table_init() to not
use BUG_ON() while holding neigh_tbl_lock. Instead we remember that
we found an existing tbl with the same family, and after dropping
the lock we'll give a diagnostic kernel log message and a stack dump.
-DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
One Block of the NAND Flash Array memory is reserved as
a One-Time Programmable Block memory area.
Also, 1st Block of NAND Flash Array can be used as OTP.
The OTP block can be read, programmed and locked using the same
operations as any other NAND Flash Array memory block.
OTP block cannot be erased.
OTP block is fully-guaranteed to be a valid block.
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] 8250: add locking to console write function
[SERIAL] Remove unconditional enable of TX irq for console
[SERIAL] 8250: set divisor register correctly for AMD Alchemy SoC uart
[SERIAL] AMD Alchemy UART: claim memory range
[SERIAL] Clean up serial locking when obtaining a reference to a port
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NET_SCHED]: HFSC: fix thinko in hfsc_adjust_levels()
[IPV6]: skb leakage in inet6_csk_xmit
[BRIDGE]: Do sysfs registration inside rtnl.
[NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice.
[TG3]: Fix possible NULL deref in tg3_run_loopback().
[NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around
[IRDA]: Switching to a workqueue for the SIR work
[IRDA]: smsc-ircc: Minimal hotplug support.
[IRDA]: Removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs
[IRDA]: New maintainer.
[NET]: Make netdev_chain a raw notifier.
[IPV4]: ip_options_fragment() has no effect on fragmentation
[NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.
David Woodhouse