ubi deadlock on .36+

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 02:50:07 EST 2010


On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 16:23 +0200, Grazvydas Ignotas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While trying to figure out what is happening in your system, I realized
> > one possible scenario which may confuse UBI. I've added a patch below.
> > This probably won't fix your issue (but you could try), I need more time
> > to think about what was happening. But a log with all messages (not only
> > I/O) would help. Thanks.
> 
> Well I think I already know what's wrong with my driver - it has
> subpage reads broken. So UBI tries to read a subpage, driver fails
> there, then it runs a torture test on full PEB that passes (because
> page reads work right), marks that PEB as good and retries the subpage
> read that fails again, and the story repeats. Does that sound like
> reasonable scenario, or do you still want more debugging logs?

Yaeah, obviously you have driver problems, I'm just interested to
improve UBI's resilience.
 
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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