Some recent patches caused churn around this area, and checkpatch
noticed the existing issues.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Some devices have partitions that are kind of containers with extra
subpartitions / volumes instead of e.g. a simple filesystem data. To
support such cases we need to first create normal flash device
partitions and then take care of these special ones.
It's very common case for home routers. Depending on the vendor there
are formats like TRX, Seama, TP-Link, WRGG & more. All of them are used
to embed few partitions into a single one / single firmware file.
Ideally all vendors would use some well documented / standardized format
like UBI (and some probably start doing so), but there are still
countless devices on the market using these poor vendor specific
formats.
This patch extends MTD subsystem by allowing to specify list of parsers
that should be tried for a given partition. Supporting such poor formats
is highly unlikely to be the top priority so these changes try to
minimize maintenance cost to the minimum. It reuses existing code for
these new parsers and just adds a one property and one new function.
This implementation requires setting partition parsers in a flash
parser. A proper change of bcm47xxpart will follow and in the future we
will hopefully also find a solution for doing it with ofpart
("fixed-partitions").
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Some flash device partitions can be containers with extra subpartitions
(volumes). All callbacks are already capable of this additional level of
indirection.
This patch makes sure we always display subpartitions using a tree
structure and takes care of deleting subpartitions when parent gets
removed.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
This prepares mtd subsystem for the new feature: subpartitions. In some
cases flash device partition can be a container with extra subpartitions
(volumes).
So far there was a flat structure implemented. One master (flash device)
could be partitioned into few partitions. Every partition got its master
and it was enough to get things running.
To support subpartitions we need to store pointer to the parent for each
partition. This is required to implement more natural tree structure and
handle all recursion and offsets calculation.
To make code consistent this patch renamed "master" to the "parent" in
places where we can be dealing with subpartitions.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
When support for sysfs "offset" file was added it missed to update the
del_mtd_partitions function. It deletes partitions just like
mtd_del_partition does so both should also take care of removing sysfs
files.
This change moves sysfs_remove_files call to the shared function to fix
this issue.
Fixes: a62c24d755 ("mtd: part: Add sysfs variable for offset of partition")
Cc: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
There are two similar functions handling deletion. One handles single
partition and another the whole MTD flash device. They share (duplicate)
some code so it makes sense to add a small helper for that part.
Function del_mtd_partitions has been moved a bit to keep all deleting
stuff together.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
This code is going to be reused for parsers matched using OF so let's
factor it out to make this easier.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
erasesize is meaningful for flash devices but for SRAM there is no
concept of an erase block so erasesize is set to 0. When partitioning
these devices instead of ensuring partitions fall on erasesize
boundaries we ensure they fall on writesize boundaries.
Helped-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
The user visible change here is that mtd partitions get an of_node link
in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
If implemented, 'max_bad_blocks' returns the maximum number of bad
blocks to reserve for a MTD. An implementation for NAND is coming soon.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@ni.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electron.com>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Kernel source files need not include <linux/kconfig.h> explicitly
because the top Makefile forces to include it with:
-include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h
This commit removes explicit includes except the following:
* arch/s390/include/asm/facilities_src.h
* tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/kernel.h
These two are used for host programs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473656164-11929-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the master device has callbacks for _get/put_device()
and this MTD has slaves a get_mtd_device() call on paritions
will never issue the registered callbacks.
Fix this by propagating _get/put_device() down.
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
MLC and TLC NAND devices are using NAND cells exposing more than one bit,
but instead of attaching all the bits in a given cell to a single NAND
page, each bit is usually attached to a different page. This concept is
called 'page pairing', and has significant impacts on the flash storage
usage.
The main problem showed by these devices is that interrupting a page
program operation may not only corrupt the page we are programming
but also the page it is paired with, hence the need to expose to MTD
users the pairing scheme information.
The pairing APIs allows one to query pairing information attached to a
given page (here called wunit), or the other way around (the wunit
pointed by pairing information).
It also provides several helpers to help the conversion between absolute
offsets and wunits, and query the number of pairing groups.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
ECC layout definitions are currently exposed using the nand_ecclayout
struct which embeds oobfree and eccpos arrays with predefined size.
This approach was acceptable when NAND chips were providing relatively
small OOB regions, but MLC and TLC now provide OOB regions of several
hundreds of bytes, which implies a non negligible overhead for everybody
even those who only need to support legacy NANDs.
Create an mtd_ooblayout_ops interface providing the same functionality
(expose the ECC and oobfree layout) without the need for this huge
structure.
The mtd->ecclayout is now deprecated and should be replaced by the
equivalent mtd_ooblayout_ops. In the meantime we provide a wrapper around
the ->ecclayout field to ease migration to this new model.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Use the mtd_set_ecclayout() helper instead of directly assigning the
mtd->ecclayout field.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Currently, all MTD drivers/sublayers exposing an OOB area are
doing the same kind of test to extract the available OOB size
based on the mtd_info and mtd_oob_ops structures.
Move this common logic into an inline function and make use of it.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Suggested-by: Priit Laes <plaes@plaes.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
If partition parsers need to clean up their resources, we shouldn't
assume that all memory will fit in a single kmalloc() that the caller
can kfree(). We should allow the parser to provide a proper cleanup
routine.
Note that this means we need to keep a hold on the parser's module for a
bit longer, and release it later with mtd_part_parser_put().
Alongside this, define a default callback that we'll automatically use
if the parser doesn't provide one, so we can still retain the old
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
For some of the core partitioning code, it helps to keep info about the
parsed partition (and who parsed them) together in one place.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
The use of kmemdup() complicates the error handling a bit. We don't
actually need to allocate new memory, since this reference is treated as
const, and it is copied into new memory by the partition registration
code anyway. So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
We're going to reuse put_partition_parser(), so let's fix up the prefix
naming a bit, to hopefully be more consistent. Also make convert to a
true C function instead of a macro.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
We can guard against reorganization of struct mtd_part by using
container_of(). We can also make sure we're using the right pointer
types by making this a static inline function instead of a macro.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
This can help eliminate some boilerplate by generating the module_init()
and module_exit() functions, and by automatically assigning the module
owner.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
It's easier to guarantee we've cleared out all unused fields with
memset() than by manually initializing each field.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Due to wrong assumption in ofpart ofpart fails on Exynos on SPI chips
with no partitions because the subnode containing controller data
confuses the ofpart parser.
Thus compiling in ofpart support automatically fails probing any SPI NOR
flash without partitions on Exynos.
Compiling in a partitioning scheme should not cause probe of otherwise
valid device to fail.
Instead, let's do the following:
* try parsers until one succeeds
* if no parser succeeds, report the first error we saw
* even in the failure case, allow MTD to probe, with fallback
partitions or no partitions at all -- the master device will still be
registered
Issue report and comments initially by Michal Suchanek.
Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
The probe of a mtd device can fail when a partition parser returns
error. The failure due to partition parsing can be quite mysterious when
multiple partitioning schemes are compiled in and any of them can fail
the probe.
Add debug prints which show what parsers were tried and what they
returned.
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
If we fail to allocate a partition structure in the middle of the partition
creation process, the already allocated partitions are never removed, which
means they are still present in the partition list and their resources are
never freed.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
This patch makes MTD dynamic partitioning more flexible by removing
overlap checks for dynamic partitions. I don't see any particular
reason why overlapping dynamic partitions should be prohibited while
static partitions are allowed to overlap freely.
The checks previously had an off-by-one error, where 'end' should be
one less than what it is currently set at, and adding partitions out of
increasing order will fail. Disabling the checks resolves this issue.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
This patch makes a sysfs variable called 'offset' on each partition
which contains the offset in bytes from the beginning of the master
device that the partition starts.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
For many use cases, it helps to have a device node for the entire
MTD device as well as device nodes for the individual partitions.
For example, this allows querying the entire device's properties.
A common idiom is to create an additional partition which spans
over the whole device.
This patch makes a config option, CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER,
which makes the master partition present even when the device is
partitioned. This isn't turned on by default since it presents
a backwards-incompatible device numbering.
The patch also makes the parent of a partition device be the master,
if the config flag is set, now that the master is a full device.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.
Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
With the introduction of mtd_block_isreserved(), it's now possible
to fix the bad and reserved block distribution exposed by ecc_stats,
instead of accounting all the bad or reserved blocks as 'bad'.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
In addition to mtd_block_isbad(), which checks if a block is bad or
reserved, it's needed to check if a block is reserved only (but not
bad). This commit adds an MTD interface for it, in a similar fashion to
mtd_block_isbad().
While here, fix mtd_block_isbad() so the out-of-bounds checking is done
before the callback check.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
register_mtd_parser never fails; hence make it return void.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
deregister_mtd_parser never fails; hence make it return void.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Set the ecc step size for master/slave mtd_info{}.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Be a bit stricter and add few more 'const' qualifiers.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
'mtd_device_parse_register()' and 'parse_mtd_partitions()' functions accept a
an array of character pointers. These functions modify neither the pointers nor
the characters they point to. The characters are actually names of the MTD
parsers.
At the moment, the argument type is 'const char **', which means that only the
names of the parsers are constant. Let's turn the argument type into 'const
char * const *', which means that both names and the pointers which point to
them are constant.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
We may cause a memory leak when the @types has more then one parser.
Take the `default_mtd_part_types` for example. The default_mtd_part_types has
two parsers now: `cmdlinepart` and `ofpart`.
Assume the following case:
The kernel command line sets the partitions like:
#gpmi-nand:20m(boot),20m(kernel),1g(rootfs),-(user)
But the devicetree file(such as arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts) also sets
the same partitions as the kernel command line does.
In the current code, the partitions parsed out by the `ofpart` will
overwrite the @pparts which has already set by the `cmdlinepart` parser,
and the the partitions parsed out by the `cmdlinepart` is missed.
A memory leak occurs.
So we should break the code as soon as we parse out the partitions,
In actually, this patch makes a priority order between the parsers.
If one parser has already parsed out the partitions successfully,
it's no need to use another parser anymore.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
'mtd_get_device_size()' returns the size of the whole MTD device, that is the
mtd_info master size. This will be used by UBI to calculate the maximum number
of bad blocks (MBB) on a MTD device.
Artem: amended the patch a bit.
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
'struct mtd_info' is not modified by 'mtd_is_partition()' so it can be marked
as "const".
Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The drivers' _read() method, absent an error, returns a non-negative integer
indicating the maximum number of bit errors that were corrected in any one
region comprising an ecc step. MTD returns -EUCLEAN if this is >=
bitflip_threshold, 0 otherwise. If bitflip_threshold is zero, the comparison is
not made since these devices lack ECC and always return zero in the non-error
case (thanks Brian)¹. Note that this is a subtle change to the driver
interface.
This and the preceding patches in this set were tested with ubi on top of the
nandsim and docg4 devices, running the ubi test io_basic from mtd-utils.
¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-March/040468.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
An element 'bitflip_threshold' is added to struct mtd_info, and also exposed as
a read/write variable in sysfs. This will be used to determine whether or not
mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN or 0 (absent a hard error). If the driver leaves it
as zero, mtd will set it to a default value of ecc_strength.
This v2 adds the line that propagates bitflip_threshold from the master to the
partitions - thanks Ivan¹.
¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-April/040900.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Flash device drivers initialize 'ecc_strength' in struct mtd_info, which is the
maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one writesize region.
Drivers using the nand interface intitialize 'strength' in struct nand_ecc_ctrl,
which is the maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one ecc step.
Nand infrastructure code translates this to 'ecc_strength'.
Also for nand drivers, the nand infrastructure code sets ecc.strength for ecc
modes NAND_ECC_SOFT, NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH, and NAND_ECC_NONE. It is set in the
driver for all other modes.
Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch reverts a change that may have been mistakenly included with the set
of patches that introduced the new mtd api entry functions. Or perhaps I am
mistaken :)
The problem is in the partition wrapper functions, where the calls to the driver
methods were replaced with calls to the new mtd api functions. This causes the
api function to be called a second time, further down the call stack. This is
not only unnecessary and redundant - because the sanity checking code and (more
restrictive) bounds checks for the partition were done in the first call - but
is potentially problematic and confusing.
For example, the call stack for a call to mtd_read() on a partitioned device
currently looks like this:
mtd_read() gets struct mtd_info for the partition
|
+-> part_read() via the pointer assigned when the partition was created
|
+->mtd_read() this time gets struct mtd_info for the master
|
+->xyz_driver_read() via the pointer asigned by the driver
It seems that this can cause a variety of problems. For example, if you want to
add code to the api function that tests a value in mtd_info that is relevant
only to the partition. Or (in my case) you want the driver to return a value
that may be different from that returned by the mtd api function.
This patch eliminates the second call to the mtd api function. It was tested on
the docg4 nand driver with a subset of the api functions, but I inspected the
rest and don't see any problems.
Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Many drivers check whether the partition is R/O and return -EROFS if yes.
Let's stop having duplicated checks and move them to the API functions
instead.
And again a bit of noise - deleted few too sparse newlines, sorry.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
We already verify that offset and length are within the MTD device size
in the MTD API functions. Let's remove the duplicated checks in drivers.
This patch only affects the following API's:
'mtd_erase()'
'mtd_point()'
'mtd_unpoint()'
'mtd_get_unmapped_area()'
'mtd_read()'
'mtd_write()'
'mtd_panic_write()'
'mtd_lock()'
'mtd_unlock()'
'mtd_is_locked()'
'mtd_block_isbad()'
'mtd_block_markbad()'
This patch adds a bit of noise by removing too sparse empty lines, but this is
not too bad.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Brian Norris
Rafał Miłecki
Chris Packham
Sascha Hauer
Jeff Westfahl
Masahiro Yamada
Richard Weinberger
Boris Brezillon
Michal Suchanek
Dan Ehrenberg
Christoph Hellwig
Ezequiel Garcia
Christian Riesch
Axel Lin
Geert Uytterhoeven
Huang Shijie
Artem Bityutskiy
David Woodhouse
Huang Shijie
Richard Genoud
Mike Dunn