Lots of fastmap writes

[Zhihao Cheng]

在 2024/6/3 16:55, Rickard x Andersson 写道:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a system running Linux 5.10 which logs quite a lot to a database. 
> The system has been running OK since before Christmas but now it usually 
> fails after a few hours with errors like these:
> 
> May  6 22:29:58 172.26.203.90   warning ubi2 warning: ubi_io_read: error 
> -74 (ECC error) while reading 58 bytes from PEB 1:230872, read only 58 
> bytes, retry
> May  7 00:11:08 172.26.203.90   warning ubi2 warning: ubi_io_read: error 
> -74 (ECC error) while reading 58 bytes from PEB 40:239752, read only 58 
> bytes, retry
> May  7 00:11:08 172.26.203.90   err     ubi2 error: ubi_io_read: error 
> -74 (ECC error) while reading 58 bytes from PEB 40:239752, read 58 bytes
> 
> Fastmap is used on this system. The ECC errors are usually in the 
> fastmap area, erase blocks 0- 63.
> 
> When looking more closely at the erase counters they look something like 
> this:
> 
> 0 - 63: 29600
> 64 - 2043: 2200

Try this series of patches 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20230812080005.3162125-2-chengzhihao1@huawei.com/T/
> 
> It seems like 30 % of the writes are writes to the fastmap area. Any 
> ideas of what can cause this many writes to the fastmap area? Heavy load?
> 
> Any ideas are welcome.
> 
> nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0xdc
> nand: Toshiba TC58NVG2S0H 4G 3.3V 8-bit
> nand: 512 MiB, SLC, erase size: 256 KiB, page size: 4096, OOB size: 256
> nand: 2 chips detected
> 
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): Mounting in authenticated mode
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): background thread "ubifs_bgt2_0" started, PID 187
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 2, volume 0, name "data_volume"
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): LEB size: 253952 bytes (248 KiB), min./max. I/O unit 
> sizes: 4096 bytes/4096 bytes
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): FS size: 505110528 bytes (481 MiB, 1989 LEBs), journal 
> size 25395200 bytes (24 MiB, 100 LEBs)
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): reserved for root: 4676575 bytes (4566 KiB)
> UBIFS (ubi2:0): media format: w5/r0 (latest is w5/r0), UUID 
> 990A460D-A55E-4B58-ACAD-01FEBC7AF839, small LPT model
> 
> ubi2: default fastmap pool size: 100
> ubi2: default fastmap WL pool size: 50
> ubi2: attaching mtd5
> ubi2: attached by fastmap
> ubi2: fastmap pool size: 100
> ubi2: fastmap WL pool size: 50
> ubi2: attached mtd5 (name "data", size 512 MiB)
> ubi2: PEB size: 262144 bytes (256 KiB), LEB size: 253952 bytes
> ubi2: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 4096/4096, sub-page size 4096
> ubi2: VID header offset: 4096 (aligned 4096), data offset: 8192
> ubi2: good PEBs: 2040, bad PEBs: 8, corrupted PEBs: 0
> ubi2: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128
> ubi2: max/mean erase counter: 29685/3107, WL threshold: 4096, image 
> sequence number: 4060280209
> ubi2: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 2040, PEBs reserved for 
> bad PEB handling: 32
> ubi2: background thread "ubi_bgt2d" started, PID 186
> 
> Best regards,
> Rickard Andersson
> 
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