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Linus Torvalds
ec4883b015 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* 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
2007-06-04 17:54:09 -07:00
David Woodhouse
718ea8361b [MTD] Fix error checking after get_mtd_device() in get_sb_mtd functions
It returns ERR_PTR(foo) on error, not just NULL.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-06-01 19:21:59 +01:00
Yoann Padioleau
f834368564 parse errors in ifdefs
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>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Yoann Padioleau
632155e659 potential parse error in ifdef
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>
2007-06-01 08:18:27 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a35afb830f Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
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>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
David Howells
acaebfd8a7 [MTD] generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks
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>
2007-05-11 12:14:15 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
33672f72b2 [MTD] [MAPS] don't force uclinux mtd map to be root dev
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>
2007-05-11 11:48:15 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
e25df1205f [S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.
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>
2007-05-10 15:46:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ba7cc09c9c Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* 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
  ...
2007-05-09 13:10:11 -07:00
David Woodhouse
b7aa48be1e [MTD] [CHIPS] Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp)
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-09 13:34:37 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
42f209d3c9 [MTD] Delete allegedly obsolete "bank_size" field of mtd_info.
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>
2007-05-09 13:26:52 +01:00
David Gibson
025257c7a7 [MTD] [MAPS] Remove flash maps for no longer supported 405LP boards
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>
2007-05-09 09:43:02 +01:00
David Gibson
2d0fa586fa [MTD] [MAPS] Fix missing printk() parameter in physmap_of.c MTD driver
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>
2007-05-09 09:38:48 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
a982ac06b0 misc doc and kconfig typos
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>
2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
Michael Opdenacker
59c51591a0 Fix occurrences of "the the "
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
df6d3916f3 Merge branch 'master' of 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>
2007-05-08 11:50:19 -07:00
Jean Delvare
b3561ea946 Clean up mutex_trylock noise
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
02bbc0f09c Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2007-05-08 13:37:51 +10:00
Vitaly Wool
711fdf627c [MTD] [NAND] platform NAND driver: add driver
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>
2007-05-08 00:41:55 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
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>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Nick Piggin
6fe6900e1e mm: make read_cache_page synchronous
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>
2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
15700770ef Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* 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
  ...
2007-05-06 13:21:57 -07:00
Andrew Victor
693ef66d89 [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand.c: CMDLINE_PARTS support
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>
2007-05-03 07:40:41 +01:00
Thomas Knobloch
1a12f46af1 [MTD] [NAND] Tidy up handling of page number in nand_block_bad()
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>
2007-05-03 07:39:37 +01:00
Jean Delvare
6473d160b4 PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h>
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>
2007-05-02 19:02:35 -07:00
Alexander E. Patrakov
39f5fb3035 kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
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>
2007-05-02 20:58:11 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
4839f0481d [MTD] block2mtd_paramline[] mustn't be __initdata
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>
2007-05-02 12:33:17 +01:00
David Woodhouse
048c37b490 [MTD] [NAND] Support multiple chips in CAFÉ driver
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>
2007-05-02 12:26:37 +01:00
David Woodhouse
14448005ab [MTD] [NAND] Rename cafe.c to cafe_nand.c and remove the multi-obj magic
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-02 12:04:57 +01:00
Segher Boessenkool
8c61b7a7f4 [MTD] [NAND] Use rslib for CAFÉ ECC
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-02 12:00:20 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
40cd3a4564 [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers
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>
2007-05-02 20:04:32 +10:00
Adrian Bunk
28b57cddb3 [MTD] [MAPS] drivers/mtd/maps/ck804xrom.c: convert pci_module_init()
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>
2007-04-27 23:34:21 +01:00
Mike Rapoport
54d33c4c71 [MTD] [NAND] CM-x270 MTD driver
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>
2007-04-27 23:04:32 +01:00
David Woodhouse
d1da4e50e5 Merge branch 'master' of 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>
2007-04-27 19:16:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b928ed5618 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6
* '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
2007-04-27 10:42:35 -07:00
Knobloch, Thomas
78ab67da10 [MTD] [NAND] Wrong calculation of page number in nand_block_bad()
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>
2007-04-27 15:13:53 +01:00
Artem Bityutskiy
d468a03002 UBI: remove unused variable
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2007-04-27 15:11:44 +03:00
Artem B. Bityutskiy
801c135ce7 UBI: Unsorted Block Images
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>
2007-04-27 14:23:33 +03:00
Stephen Rothwell
ccf0dec6fc [SPARC/64] constify of_get_property return: drivers
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>
2007-04-26 01:54:27 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
06d63cc51d [MTD] [MAPS] fix plat-ram printk format
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>
2007-04-26 07:28:58 +01:00
Adrian Hunter
c36c46d53b [MTD] [OneNAND] Exit loop only when column start with 0
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>
2007-04-25 11:09:37 +01:00
Kyungmin Park
ad28634366 [MTD] [OneNAND] Fix access the past of the real oobfree array
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>
2007-04-25 11:09:23 +01:00
Kyungmin Park
c19df27ec7 [MTD] [OneNAND] Update Samsung OneNAND official URL
Update Samsung OneNAND official URL.

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-04-25 11:09:06 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
3e67fe4543 [MTD] Finish conversion mtd_blkdevs to use the kthread API
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>
2007-04-22 20:48:29 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
ec98c681a5 Use menuconfig objects: MTD
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>
2007-04-19 16:21:41 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
99f9b2431e [MTD] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API
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>
2007-04-19 16:16:46 -05:00
Shashi Rao
e6be133b68 [MTD] Fix fwh_lock locking
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>
2007-04-17 14:11:20 -04:00
Adrian Hunter
a5ac8aeb29 [MTD] nandsim: enhance nandsim to allow arbitrary NAND size
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>
2007-04-17 13:55:55 -04:00
Adrian Hunter
57aa6b545f [MTD] nandsim: Enhance nandsim optionally to report wear information
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>
2007-04-17 13:55:29 -04:00
Adrian Hunter
514087e74f [MTD] nandsim: enhance nandsim to simulate flash errors
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>
2007-04-17 13:55:08 -04:00