UBIFS trouble

[Adrian Hunter]

Daniel Mack wrote:
> (re-posting with the correct linux-mtd ML address. Sorry)
> I'm running the latest git snapshot of the Linux kernel on a PXA3xx
> based board. Connected to the PXA3xx is a 128MiB Nymonix NAND chip
> which I've set to enourmously relaxed timings for now (factor 2 on all
> values).
> 
> 'nandtest -p 100 /dev/mtd3' runs for hours without any trouble and
> succeeds every test. However, when I create an UBIFS on that mtd and
> start bonnie to stress-test the filesystem layer, I keep on seeing
> messages like this:
> 
> [  382.374993] UBIFS error (pid 1133): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 58:106008
> [  382.382178] UBIFS error (pid 1133): do_readpage: cannot read page 38693 of inode 66, error -22
> [  382.390968] timed out writing command
> [  382.394830] UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 76 bytes from PEB 245:105736, read 76 bytes
> [  382.404186] UBIFS error (pid 1135): try_read_node: cannot read node type 1 from LEB 68:101640, error -74
> [  382.413698] UBIFS error (pid 1135): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (255 but expected 1)
> [  382.421718] UBIFS error (pid 1135): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 68:101640
> [  382.428941] UBIFS error (pid 1135): do_readpage: cannot read page 53753 of inode 66, error -22
> [  648.164435] UBIFS error (pid 1138): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (70 but expected 9)
> [  648.172317] UBIFS error (pid 1138): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 110:112896
> [  648.179677] UBIFS error (pid 1138): do_readpage: cannot read page 19432 of inode 32838, error -22
> [  648.188650] timed out writing command
> [  648.192379] UBI error: ubi_io_read: error -74 while reading 81 bytes from PEB 738:80616, read 81 bytes
> [  648.201732] UBIFS error (pid 1136): try_read_node: cannot read node type 1 from LEB 72:76520, error -74
> [  648.211137] UBIFS error (pid 1136): ubifs_read_node: bad node type (255 but expected 1)
> [  648.219115] UBIFS error (pid 1136): ubifs_read_node: bad node at LEB 72:76520
> [  648.226231] UBIFS error (pid 1136): do_readpage: cannot read page 26131 of inode 32838, error -22
> 
> Once in awhile only and not frequently, but it still scares me. Is there
> anything I should consider? Any more information I can provide for
> further debugging?
> 
> (btw - it happens with the timings found in the datasheet as well, I
> just extended them to exclude timing issues as culprit.)
> 
> I'd like to use that filesystem in a device, but I need to get it to a
> more stable point for that.


Try the NAND tests in drivers/mtd/tests.