lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Dec]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] UBI: Fastmap: Notify user in case of an ubi_update_fastmap() failure
Hi Richard,

On 11/30/2014 1:35 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> If ubi_update_fastmap() fails notify the user.
> This is not a hard error as ubi_update_fastmap() makes sure that upon failure
> the current on-flash fastmap will no be used upon next UBI attach.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
> index 523d8a4..7821342 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
> @@ -657,7 +657,11 @@ again:
> * refill the WL pool synchronous. */
> if (pool->used == pool->size || wl_pool->used == wl_pool->size) {
> spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
> - ubi_update_fastmap(ubi);
> + ret = ubi_update_fastmap(ubi);
> + if (ret) {
> + ubi_msg(ubi, "Unable to write a new fastmap: %i", ret);
> + return -ENOSPC;

Why do you fail the whole function (ubi_wl_get_peb) if fastmap update
failed? Its possible that the fm_pools were refilled correctly, and the
actual fastmap_write failed, so there is nothing preventing the user to
get peb allocated and continue working. You invalidate the fastmap, so
if powercut occurs a full scan will be performed. So its possible to
allocate from fm_pools (although fastmap is not valid on disc) and try
writing fastmap again when the pools filled up.
I'm for the ubi_msg but against "return -ENOSPC;"

> + }
> spin_lock(&ubi->wl_lock);
> }
>
>


Thanks,
Tanya Brokhman
--
Qualcomm Israel, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora
Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-12-07 15:41    [W:0.198 / U:0.992 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site