UBI/UBIFS on NAND with PEB 4MB

[Matthias Auchmann]

Hi guys!

I'm trying to use UBI and UBIFS on a Micron MT29F32G08ABCDBJ4 SLC NAND with an erase block size 4MB.

First of all, mkfs.ubifs wouldn't support a LEB larger than UBIFS_MAX_LEB_SZ being (2*1024*1024).

When I use ubiattach though, it seems to be quite happy, giving me that on a 128MB partition:

UBI device number 0, total 32 LEBs (133169152 bytes, 127.0 MiB), available 8 LEBs (33292288 bytes, 31.8 MiB), LEB size 4161536 bytes (4.0 MiB)

Anyway, when I detach and reattach, it won't work. Details are in the bottom of that mail, but since I haven't thoroughly looked into it myself yet, this is only for those who care... I don't want to ask preliminary questions.

Anyway, my questions I guess then are:
-) Are there any patches/branches that enable UBIFS to be run with a LEB of 4161536?
-) Are there any known limitations with using a 4MiB PEB with UBI itself, or shall I assume for now that the problem is on my board/NAND driver regarding the above ubiattach errors upon the second attach?

Thanks!

BR,

Matthias



*** Please only read this if you care: ***
Details about attach/detach/attach problem.
Upon first attaching, dmesg says:
[  117.483503] ubi0: attaching mtd5
[  117.502347] ubi0: scanning is finished
[  117.502353] ubi0: empty MTD device detected
[  117.513280] ubi0: attached mtd5 (name "rootfs01", size 128 MiB)
[  117.513288] ubi0: PEB size: 4194304 bytes (4096 KiB), LEB size: 4161536 bytes
[  117.513293] ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 16384/16384, sub-page size 16384
[  117.513299] ubi0: VID header offset: 16384 (aligned 16384), data offset: 32768
[  117.513304] ubi0: good PEBs: 32, bad PEBs: 0, corrupted PEBs: 0
[  117.513309] ubi0: user volume: 0, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
[  117.513314] ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 0/0, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 34480849
[  117.513320] ubi0: available PEBs: 8, total reserved PEBs: 24, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 20
[  117.513333] ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 1637

Anyway, when I detach and reattach, I get this:
ubiattach: error!: cannot attach "/dev/mtd5"
           error 22 (Invalid argument)

dmesg says:
[  359.282384] ubi0: attaching mtd5
[  359.319433] ubi0: scanning is finished
[  359.321747] ubi0 error: vtbl_check: bad CRC at record 0: 0x2b4f6dd5, not 0x000000
[  359.321753] Volume table record 0 dump:
[  359.321757]  reserved_pebs   -16777216
[  359.321760]  alignment       0
[  359.321763]  data_pad        0
[  359.321766]  vol_type        0
[  359.321770]  upd_marker      0
[  359.321773]  name_len        0
[  359.321776]  name            NULL
[  359.321784] ubi0 error: vtbl_check: bad CRC at record 0: 0x2b4f6dd5, not 0x000000
[  359.321788] Volume table record 0 dump:
[  359.321791]  reserved_pebs   -16777216
[  359.321794]  alignment       0
[  359.321797]  data_pad        0
[  359.321800]  vol_type        0
[  359.321803]  upd_marker      0
[  359.321807]  name_len        0
[  359.321809]  name            NULL
[  359.321816] ubi0 error: ubi_read_volume_table: both volume tables are corrupted
[  359.321836] ubi0 error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach mtd5, error -22