UBI Fastmap fixes for 3.7

Zach Sadecki zsadecki at itwatchdogs.com
Tue Dec 4 09:45:18 EST 2012


On 12/03/2012 01:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> This patch series contains two brown-paper-bag-bugfixes.
> I'm very sorry for them!
>
> [PATCH 1/2] ubi: Remove PEB from free tree in get_peb_for_wl()
> This one fixes a very odd issue with fastmap disabled.
> With fastmap disabled get_peb_for_wl() did not remove PEBs from
> the free list. Therefore the free, used and scrub trees got corrupted.
>
> [PATCH 2/2] ubi: Dont call ubi_self_check_all_ff() in __wl_get_peb()
> The issue fixed by that patch is also very nasty. I missed that
> ubi_self_check_all_ff() can sleep. So, we cannot call it from
> __wl_get_peb().
>
> Thanks,
> //richard
Thanks, guys.  An overnight test run has shown that these patches have 
fixed the UBI problems on my board.  Something else odd is happening, 
but that's for another thread...



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