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* Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-06-04
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: [JFFS2] Fix obsoletion of metadata nodes in jffs2_add_tn_to_tree() [MTD] Fix error checking after get_mtd_device() in get_sb_mtd functions [JFFS2] Fix buffer length calculations in jffs2_get_inode_nodes() [JFFS2] Fix potential memory leak of dead xattrs on unmount. [JFFS2] Fix BUG() caused by failing to discard xattrs on deleted files. [MTD] generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks [MTD] [MAPS] don't force uclinux mtd map to be root dev
| * [MTD] Fix error checking after get_mtd_device() in get_sb_mtd functionsDavid Woodhouse2007-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | It returns ERR_PTR(foo) on error, not just NULL. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocksDavid Howells2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks so that JFFS2 and ROMFS can both share it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [MAPS] don't force uclinux mtd map to be root devMike Frysinger2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cheesy uclinux mtd maps can be used for more than just the root device, so I think we should drop the forcing. Also, I feel like this is a policy decision that shouldnt be in the kernel in the first place. People who have been lazy and boot with uclinux mtd maps and dont put root= into their commandline can simply add the appropriate root= line either into their bootloader or into the compiled in bootargs. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | parse errors in ifdefsYoann Padioleau2007-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to compile, due to ifdefs. Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | potential parse error in ifdefYoann Padioleau2007-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have made a tool to parse the kernel that does not pre-process the source. That means that my parser tries to parse all the code, including code in the #else branch or code that is not often compiled because the driver is not very used (or not used at all). So, my parser sometimes reports parse error not originally detected by gcc. Here is my (first) patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix amd8111e.c] Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTORChristoph Lameter2007-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.Martin Schwidefsky2007-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "depends on HAS_IOMEM" to a number of menus to make them disappear for s390 which does not have I/O memory. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-05-09
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (21 commits) [MTD] [CHIPS] Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp) [MTD] Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info. [MTD] Remove unnecessary user space check from mtd.h. [MTD] [MAPS] Remove flash maps for no longer supported 405LP boards [MTD] [MAPS] Fix missing printk() parameter in physmap_of.c MTD driver [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: add driver [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: update header [JFFS2] Simplify and clean up jffs2_add_tn_to_tree() some more. [JFFS2] Remove another bogus optimisation in jffs2_add_tn_to_tree() [JFFS2] Remove broken insert_point optimisation in jffs2_add_tn_to_tree() [JFFS2] Remember to calculate overlap on nodes which replace older nodes [JFFS2] Don't advance c->wbuf_ofs to next eraseblock after wbuf flush [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand.c: CMDLINE_PARTS support [MTD] [NAND] Tidy up handling of page number in nand_block_bad() [MTD] block2mtd_paramline[] mustn't be __initdata [MTD] [NAND] Support multiple chips in CAFÉ driver [MTD] [NAND] Rename cafe.c to cafe_nand.c and remove the multi-obj magic [MTD] [NAND] Use rslib for CAFÉ ECC [RSLIB] Support non-canonical GF representations [JFFS2] Remove dead file histo_mips.h ...
| * [MTD] [CHIPS] Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp)David Woodhouse2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info.Robert P. J. Day2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Delete the allegedly obsolete "bank_size" member of struct mtd_info. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [MAPS] Remove flash maps for no longer supported 405LP boardsDavid Gibson2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/mtd/maps includes flash maps for the Beech and Arctic PowerPC 405LP based boards. However, the 405LP was discontinued before any quantity were distributed and those boards no longer have kernel support in general. Therefore, this patch removes this obsolete code. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [MAPS] Fix missing printk() parameter in physmap_of.c MTD driverDavid Gibson2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Squashes a compiler warning, and provides more useful information in the case messed up device tree information. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: add driverVitaly Wool2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for generic platform NAND driver. Updated after tglx's review/discussion in IRC #mtd channel. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand.c: CMDLINE_PARTS supportAndrew Victor2007-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows you to specify at91_nand partitions on the kernel command line using the mtdparts variable, if CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS is set. Signed-off-by: Frank Mandarino <fmandarino@endrelia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] Tidy up handling of page number in nand_block_bad()Thomas Knobloch2007-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Further to the previous patch fixing the calculation of page number, both branches are using the same result. Clean up the function accordingly, calculating it (and also masking with pagemask) only in one place. Signed-off-by: Thomas Knobloch <knobloch@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] block2mtd_paramline[] mustn't be __initdataAdrian Bunk2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | block2mtd_paramline[] is used in the non-__init block2mtd_setup() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] Support multiple chips in CAFÉ driverDavid Woodhouse2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CAFÉ can handle two chip on separate chipselect lines. Hook up the undocumented chipselect bits in the driver and probe both. In the case of OLPC, it's not actually two separate devices -- it's a single '1GiB' package with two 512MiB dies internally. So clear the NAND_BBT_PERCHIP flag to treat it as a single chip for BBT purposes, and make life easier for the firmware. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] Rename cafe.c to cafe_nand.c and remove the multi-obj magicDavid Woodhouse2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * [MTD] [NAND] Use rslib for CAFÉ ECCSegher Boessenkool2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-08
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (77 commits) [POWERPC] Abolish powerpc_flash_init() [POWERPC] Early serial debug support for PPC44x [POWERPC] Support for the Ebony 440GP reference board in arch/powerpc [POWERPC] Add device tree for Ebony [POWERPC] Add powerpc/platforms/44x, disable platforms/4xx for now [POWERPC] MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend [POWERPC] MPIC MSI allocator [POWERPC] Enable MSI mappings for MPIC [POWERPC] Tell Phyp we support MSI [POWERPC] RTAS MSI implementation [POWERPC] PowerPC MSI infrastructure [POWERPC] Rip out the existing powerpc msi stubs [POWERPC] Remove use of 4level-fixup.h for ppc32 [POWERPC] Add powerpc PCI-E reset API implementation [POWERPC] Holly bootwrapper [POWERPC] Holly DTS [POWERPC] Holly defconfig [POWERPC] Add support for 750CL Holly board [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PCI setup [POWERPC] Generalize tsi108 PHY types ... Fixed conflict in include/asm-powerpc/kdebug.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * \ Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras2007-05-07
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| * | | [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: driversStephen Rothwell2007-05-02
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are all the remaining instances of get_property. Simple rename of get_property to of_get_property. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | | Clean up mutex_trylock noiseJean Delvare2007-05-08
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo Molnar's semaphore to mutex conversions left some noise on a few trylock calls. Clean it up. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flagChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by SLAB. I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is performed before each freeing of an object. I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually before the free. That also places the check near the code object manipulation of the object. Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree). There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors. This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for unimplemented flags from SLUB. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: make read_cache_page synchronousNick Piggin2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls. I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7 possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return with a !uptodate page. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2007-05-06
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits) kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message. kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help usr/Kconfig: fix typo kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs' kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string. kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config' kbuild: override build timestamp & version ...
| * | kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig helpAlexander E. Patrakov2007-05-02
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation/modules.txt doesn't exist, but Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt does. Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* / PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h>Jean Delvare2007-05-02
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up. In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci" or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the false positives manually. My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false positives remaining. Untested files are: arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c arch/mips/lib/iomap.c arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c drivers/media/video/saa711x.c drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c drivers/net/au1000_eth.c drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c drivers/net/lasi_82596.c drivers/parisc/hppb.c drivers/sbus/sbus.c drivers/video/g364fb.c drivers/video/platinumfb.c drivers/video/stifb.c drivers/video/valkyriefb.c include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have. Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted to LKML yesterday: [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141 Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [MTD] [MAPS] drivers/mtd/maps/ck804xrom.c: convert pci_module_init()Adrian Bunk2007-04-27
| | | | | | | | | This patch converts the pci_module_init() usage to pci_register_driver(). It's currently #if 0'ed, but still not a bad idea to change it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [MTD] [NAND] CM-x270 MTD driverMike Rapoport2007-04-27
| | | | | | | This patch provides MTD support for NAND flash devices on CM-x270 modules. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse2007-04-27
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/mtd/Kconfig Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
| * Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-04-27
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6: UBI: remove unused variable UBI: add me to MAINTAINERS JFFS2: add UBI support UBI: Unsorted Block Images
| | * UBI: remove unused variableArtem Bityutskiy2007-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
| | * UBI: Unsorted Block ImagesArtem B. Bityutskiy2007-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling across the whole flash device. In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks. More information may be found at http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html Partitioning/Re-partitioning An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit. UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums. Bad eraseblocks handling UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this. Scrubbing On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation, sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate, correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users. Erase Counts UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm itself is exchangeable. Booting from NAND For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This "initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to load and execute the next boot phase. Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume. UBI volumes vs. static partitions UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions: * both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions; * both support three basic operations - read, write, erase. But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional static MTD partitions: * there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI volumes, so the user should not care about this; * there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes. So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed restrictions. Where can it be found? Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD gits. What are the applications for? The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content analysis after a system has crashed.. Who did UBI? The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem. Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements. Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
| * | [SPARC/64] constify of_get_property return: driversStephen Rothwell2007-04-26
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only unfortunate bit here is that the name field of struct map_info is not const, so for now we put a cast on the assignment of it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [MTD] [NAND] Wrong calculation of page number in nand_block_bad()Knobloch, Thomas2007-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case that there is no memory based bad block table available the function nand_block_checkbad() in drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c will call nand_block_bad() directly. When parameter 'getchip' is set to zero, nand_block_bad() will not right shift the offset to calculate the correct page number. Signed-off-by: Thomas Knobloch <knobloch@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] [MAPS] fix plat-ram printk formatRandy Dunlap2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c:172: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] [OneNAND] Exit loop only when column start with 0Adrian Hunter2007-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The JFFS2 requests OOB function from column 0. But the oobtest in nand-tests doesn't. So we only exit loop only when column start with 0. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] [OneNAND] Fix access the past of the real oobfree arrayKyungmin Park2007-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here it's not the case: all the entries are occupied by OOB chunks. Therefore, once we get into a loop like for (free = this->ecclayout->oobfree; free->length; ++free) { } we might end up scanning past the real oobfree array. Probably the best way out, as the same thing might happen for common NAND as well, is to check index against MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] [OneNAND] Update Samsung OneNAND official URLKyungmin Park2007-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Samsung OneNAND official URL. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] Finish conversion mtd_blkdevs to use the kthread APIChristoph Hellwig2007-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove waitqueue, 'exiting' flag and completion; use kthread APIs instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | Use menuconfig objects: MTDJan Engelhardt2007-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once instead of going through all options. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread APIEric W. Biederman2007-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking around blocking signals directly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] Fix fwh_lock lockingShashi Rao2007-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is on a custom board with a mapping driver access to an ST M50LPW080 chip. This chip is probed successfully with do_map_probe("jedec_probe",...). If I use the mtdchar interface to perform unlock->erase->program->lock on any of the 16 eraseblocks in the chip, the chip is left in FL_STATUS mode while the data structures believe that the chip is in FL_READY mode. Hence, any subsequent reads to any flash byte results in 0x80 being read. Signed-off-by: Shashi Rao <shashi@sun.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] nandsim: enhance nandsim to allow arbitrary NAND sizeAdrian Hunter2007-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new module parameter has been added called 'overridesize', which overrides the size that would be determined by the ID bytes. 'overridesize' is specified in erase blocks and as the exponent of a power of two e.g. 5 means a size of 32 erase blocks. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] nandsim: Enhance nandsim optionally to report wear informationAdrian Hunter2007-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new module parameter 'rptwear' specifies how many erases between reporting wear information. Zero means never. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [MTD] nandsim: enhance nandsim to simulate flash errorsAdrian Hunter2007-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New module parameters have been added to nandsim to simulate: bitflips random bit flips badblocks blocks that are initially marked bad weakblocks blocks that fail to erase after a small number of erase cycles weakpages pages that fail to write after a small number of successful writes gravepages pages that fail to read after a small number of successful reads Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>