UBI: fix atomic LEB change problems

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 <brijesh.s.singh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
index cc010111264..5e941a63303 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
@@ -221,14 +221,15 @@ struct ubi_wl_entry;
  * @vtbl_slots: how many slots are available in the volume table
  * @vtbl_size: size of the volume table in bytes
  * @vtbl: in-RAM volume table copy
+ * @vtbl_mutex: protects on-flash volume table
  *
  * @max_ec: current highest erase counter value
  * @mean_ec: current mean erase counter value
  *
- * global_sqnum: global sequence number
+ * @global_sqnum: global sequence number
  * @ltree_lock: protects the lock tree and @global_sqnum
  * @ltree: the lock tree
- * @vtbl_mutex: protects on-flash volume table
+ * @alc_mutex: serializes "atomic LEB change" operations
  *
  * @used: RB-tree of used physical eraseblocks
  * @free: RB-tree of free physical eraseblocks
@@ -308,6 +309,7 @@ struct ubi_device {
         unsigned long long global_sqnum;
         spinlock_t ltree_lock;
         struct rb_root ltree;
+        struct mutex alc_mutex;
 
         /* Wear-leveling unit's stuff */
         struct rb_root used;