kernel.git/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c, branch linux-2.6.34.y

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

UBI: add write checking

2010-02-01T13:16:37Z

Add an extra debugging check function which validates writes. After every write it reads the data back, compares it with the original data, and complains if they mismatch. Useful for debugging. No-op if extra debugging checks are disabled. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: simplify debugging return codes

2010-02-01T13:16:37Z

UBI debugging functions were a little bit over-engineered and returned more error codes than needed, and the callers had to do useless checks. Simplify the return codes. Impact: only debugging code is affected, which means that for non-developers this is a no-op patch. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: improve NOR flash erasure quirk

2009-08-14T17:02:20Z

More testing of NOR flash against power cuts showed that sometimes eraseblocks may be unwritable, and we cannot really invalidate them before erasure. But in this case the eraseblock probably contains garbage anyway, and we do not have to invalidate the headers. This assumption might be not true, but this is at least what I have observed. So if we cannot invalidate the headers, we make sure that the PEB does not contain valid VID header. If this is true, everything is fine, otherwise we panic.

UBI: introduce flash dump helper

2009-08-14T17:02:20Z

Useful for debugging problems, compiled in only if UBI debugging is enabled. This patch also makes the UBI writing function dump the flash if it fails to write. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: amend NOR flash pre-erase quirk

2009-08-14T17:01:36Z

In case of NOR flash, UBI zeroes EC and VID headers' magic, in order to detect interrupted erasures. It first zeroes out the EC magic, then VID magic. However, if a power cut happens in between, we'll end up with a corrupted EC header and a valid VID header, in which case UBI accepts the PEB, but prints a warning. This patch makes sure we first zero out the VID magic, then the EC magic, not vice versa. This is just a small amendment to prevent warning messages. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: fix compilation warnings

2009-07-08T07:15:41Z

The recent "UBI: fix NOR flash recovery" introduced compilation warnings which were immediately spotted by our linux-next keeper. This patch fixes them. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: fix NOR flash recovery

2009-07-07T08:37:45Z

This commit fixes NOR flash recovery issues observed with Spansion S29GL512N NOR. When NOR erases, it first fills PEBs with zeroes, then sets all bytes to 0xFF. Filling with zeroes starts from the end of the PEB. And when power is cut, this results in PEBs containing correct EC and VID headers but corrupted with zeros at the end. This confuses UBI and it mistakinly accepts these PEBs and associate them with LEBs. Fis this issue by zeroing EC and VID magics before erasing PEBs, to make UBI later refuse zem. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: nicify image sequence number handling

2009-07-05T15:47:08Z

Move the image seq. number handling from I/O level to the scanning lever, where it really belongs to. Move the @image_seq_set variable to the @struct ubi_scan_info structure, which exists only during scanning. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: add image sequence number to EC header

2009-07-05T15:47:07Z

An image sequence number is added to the UBI erase-counter header to be able determine if the root file system contains a mixture of old and new images (because the flashing failed to complete). A change to nolo is also needed for this to take effect. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy