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Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/configs/ocelot_c_defconfig
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/Makefile
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/cpci-irq.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/dbg_io.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/irq.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/ocelot_c_fpga.h
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/platform.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/prom.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/reset.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/setup.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_c/uart-irq.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/pci/fixup-ocelot-c.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/pci/pci-ocelot-c.c
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* 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
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It returns ERR_PTR(foo) on error, not just NULL.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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* 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
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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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
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Fixed conflict in include/asm-powerpc/kdebug.h manually
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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* 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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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* '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
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Update Samsung OneNAND official URL.
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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