[BUG?] ubi.fm_autoconvert=1 on first boot

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:50:45PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:58:34AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Steffen,
> > 
> > Am 25.11.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Steffen Trumtrar:
> > > [    3.167543] ubi1: scanning is finished
> > > [    3.190860] ubi1 error: ubi_refill_pools: no free eraseblocks
> > > [    3.196670] ubi1 error: ubi_update_fastmap: could not find any anchor PEB
> > > [    3.203608] ubi1 warning: ubi_update_fastmap: Unable to write new fastmap, err=-28
> > > [    3.211299] ubi1 error: ubi_refill_pools: no free eraseblocks
> > > [    3.217082] ubi1 error: ubi_update_fastmap: could not find any anchor PEB
> > > [    3.223965] ubi1 warning: ubi_update_fastmap: Unable to write new fastmap, err=-28
> > > [    3.231632] ubi1 error: ubi_wl_get_peb: Unable to get a free PEB from user WL pool
> > > [    3.239320] ubi1 warning: ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change: switch to read-only mode
> > > [    3.246484] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.9.0-rc6 #45
> > > [    3.255341] Hardware name: Freescale MXS (Device Tree)
> > > [    3.260616] [<c000ed60>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000d0a4>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> > > [    3.268483] [<c000d0a4>] (show_stack) from [<c020d364>] (ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change+0x3c4/0x3e0)
> > > [    3.277232] [<c020d364>] (ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change) from [<c020470c>] (ubi_update_layout_vol+0x38/0x54)
> > > [    3.286826] [<c020470c>] (ubi_update_layout_vol) from [<c0204e00>] (ubi_change_vtbl_record+0x8c/0x110)
> > > [    3.296247] [<c0204e00>] (ubi_change_vtbl_record) from [<c0206a60>] (ubi_resize_volume+0x158/0x2e0)
> > > [    3.305406] [<c0206a60>] (ubi_resize_volume) from [<c02079f4>] (autoresize+0x68/0x130)
> > > [    3.313437] [<c02079f4>] (autoresize) from [<c0208518>] (ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x4c4/0xd54)
> > > [    3.321641] [<c0208518>] (ubi_attach_mtd_dev) from [<c0452828>] (ubi_init+0x1bc/0x25c)
> > > [    3.329688] [<c0452828>] (ubi_init) from [<c0009594>] (do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x17c)
> > > [    3.337306] [<c0009594>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0440cf0>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x108/0x1d0)
> > > [    3.346123] [<c0440cf0>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0345a98>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xf8)
> > > [    3.354331] [<c0345a98>] (kernel_init) from [<c000a2d0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
> > > [    3.362017] ubi1 error: autoresize: cannot auto-resize volume 0
> > > [    3.369308] UBI error: cannot attach mtd8[    3.373284] stmp3xxx-rtc 80056000.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:57:18 UTC (3438)
> > > [    3.382547] usb0_vbus: disabling
> > > [    3.386189] uart-pl011 80074000.serial: no DMA platform data
> > > [    3.394947] UBIFS (ubi0:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt0_0" started, PID 40
> > > [    3.482996] UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery needed
> > > [    3.739605] UBIFS (ubi0:0): recovery completed
> > > [    3.744224] UBIFS (ubi0:0): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "root"
> > > [    3.751583] UBIFS (ubi0:0): LEB size: 126976 bytes (124 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048 bytes/2048 bytes
> > > [    3.761600] UBIFS (ubi0:0): FS size: 61837312 bytes (58 MiB, 487 LEBs), journal size 9023488 bytes (8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
> > > [    3.772122] UBIFS (ubi0:0): reserved for root: 0 bytes (0 KiB)
> > > [    3.778051] UBIFS (ubi0:0): media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID 79048B39-39D6-4BA2-89CF-8F2A0C699060, small LPT model
> > > [    3.791974] VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:14.
> > > [    3.801380] devtmpfs: mounted
> > > [    3.805096] Freeing unused kernel memory: 144K (c0440000 - c0464000)
> > > [    3.811571] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
> > > mounting filesystems...[    4.463895] UBIFS error (pid: 44): cannot open "ubi1:data", error -19done.
> > 
> > Can you please give the attached patch a try?
> > It is untested since I cannot reproduce.
> 
> The patch works.

Hm, this patch works on mainline, but not on my 3.10 Frankenkernel. I
wonder if there's anything in mainline that makes sure that the wearlevel
worker has actually produced free PEBs before they are needed?

Sascha


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