[PATCH 1/5] ubi: introduce ubi->bad_peb_limit

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:06 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> Introduce 'ubi->bad_peb_limit', which specifies an upper limit of PEBs
> ubi expects to go bad.
> Currently, it is initialized to a fixed percentage of total PEBs in the
> ubi device (configurable via CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT).
> 
> The 'bad_peb_limit' is intended to be used for calculating the amount of
> PEBs ubi needs to reserve for bad eraseblock handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani at gmail.com>

Created branch "beb" and pushed this patch there with minor amendments
(see diff below). Let's use this branch in UBI tree for this work and
merge it as soon as it is ready.

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index c33e25b..dee90b7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -668,13 +668,12 @@ static int io_init(struct ubi_device *ubi)
                ubi->bad_allowed = 1;
                if (CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT > 0) {
                        int percent = CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT;
-                       int beb_limit;
+                       int limit = mult_frac(ubi->peb_count, percent, 100);
 
-                       beb_limit = mult_frac(ubi->peb_count, percent, 100);
-                       /* round it up */
-                       if (mult_frac(beb_limit, 100, percent) < ubi->peb_count)
-                               beb_limit++;
-                       ubi->bad_peb_limit = beb_limit;
+                       /* Round it up */
+                       if (mult_frac(limit, 100, percent) < ubi->peb_count)
+                               limit += 1;
+                       ubi->bad_peb_limit = limit;
                }
        }

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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