UBIFS errors when file-system is full

Bhuvanchandra bhuvanchandradv at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 21:03:25 PDT 2015


Hi Richard,

On 07/31/2015 10:17 PM, Bhuvanchandra DV wrote:

> On 07/24/2015 06:51 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Am 24.07.2015 um 16:43 schrieb Bhuvanchandra DV:
>>> Disabled fastmap in U-Boot, still the corruption is persistent when 
>>> using
>>> U-Boot to mount rootfs and load kernel.
>> Can you please describe your boot setup in detail?
>> Why does U-Boot _mount_ an UBIFS? Install the kernel on an UBI static 
>> volume.
>
> U-Boot mounts UBIFS for loading the kernel and device tree blobs 
> availabel in rootfs.
> Since approximately around ~3-5 % of spare blocks are reserverd for 
> wear leveling
> (according to the NAND manufacturer). Initially we had a separate UBI 
> partition of 8MB
> for Kenrel, but after few times of re-writing the kernel to that 
> volume kernel fails
> with no available free space. Due to that reason we made a single big 
> ubi volume and
> moved the kernel and device tree blobs to rootfs.
>
>> If U-Boot mounts UBIFS it has to use UBI in RW mode and therefore it 
>> has to process
>> fastmap or _delete_ it.
>>
>>>>> The same power cut tests are done by skipping the U-Boot to mount 
>>>>> the UBIFS. Loaded
>>>>> the kernel via tftp and mount the rootfs with kernel. The power 
>>>>> cut test passed.
>>>>> I think U-Boot might have some issues, but not very sure.
>>>> To my knowledge U-Boot's fastmap support is incomplete.
>>>> If you *really* need fastmap in U-Boot make sure that they have 
>>>> backported
>>>> all recent fastmap changes. Fastmap is still experimental and faced 
>>>> a lot of fixes
>>>> recently.
>>> Tested with mainline U-Boot along with few downstream patches for 
>>> boot config block
>>> support applied, the ubifs corruption is persistant.
>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, we need to sort out what is going on.
>>>>>> As fm_debug does not trigger it could also be a non-fastmap issue.
>>>>>> Did you try your test without fastmap being enabled?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does your target pass UBI tests too?
>>>>> I'm not aware of UBI tests so far the driver passed all MTD tests.
>>>>> Can you please provide some pointers for UBI tests. Will run the 
>>>>> UBI tests with
>>>>> driver.
>>>> They are in the mtd-utils source.
>>> Not yet ran the ubi-tests. Will run the tests and share the results.
>> Please do so. :-)
>
> Seems the mtd-utils are not really cross-compile friendly, some how 
> managed to build the ubi-tests
> tweeking the Makefiles.
>
> The tests ran on ubi partition after isolating it from U-Boot completly.
> Formatted the ubi partition and then boot with SD card (4.1.2 kernel 
> fastmap enabled/disabled, fm_debug enabled).
> Please find the below log of ubi-tests:
>
> root at colibri-vf:~# ubiattach -m 3
> [   44.663944] ubi0: default fastmap pool size: 50
> [   44.668930] ubi0: default fastmap WL pool size: 25
> [   44.674045] ubi0: attaching mtd3
> [   44.995279] ubi0: scanning is finished
> [   44.999364] ubi0: empty MTD device detected
> [   45.033211] ubi0: attached mtd3 (name "ubi", size 126 MiB)
> [   45.039205] ubi0: PEB size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB), LEB size: 
> 126976 bytes
> [   45.046572] ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 2048/2048, sub-page 
> size 2048
> [   45.053715] ubi0: VID header offset: 2048 (aligned 2048), data 
> offset: 4096
> [   45.061141] ubi0: good PEBs: 1003, bad PEBs: 5, corrupted PEBs: 0
> [   45.067951] ubi0: user volume: 0, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes 
> count: 128
> [   45.075701] ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 0/0, WL threshold: 4096, 
> image sequence number: 595808446
> [   45.085278] ubi0: available PEBs: 982, total reserved PEBs: 21, 
> PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 15
> [   45.101889] ubi0: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 337
> UBI device number 0, total 1003 LEBs (127356928 bytes, 121.5 MiB), 
> available 982 LEBs (124690432 bytes, 118.9 MiB), LEB size 126976 bytes 
> (124.0 KiB)
> root at colibri-vf:~# cd ubi-tests-bin/
> root at colibri-vf:~/ubi-tests-bin# ./runtests.sh /dev/ubi0 - test /dev/ubi0
> Running mkvol_basic /dev/ubi0
> Running mkvol_bad /dev/ubi0
> [   99.630756] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.637579] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.641987]  vol_id    -2
> [   99.644784]  alignment 1
> [   99.647466]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.650994]  vol_type  3
> [   99.653696]  name_len  22
> [   99.656464]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [   99.669464] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.676292] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.680674]  vol_id    128
> [   99.683558]  alignment 1
> [   99.686240]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.694911]  vol_type  3
> [   99.702852]  name_len  22
> [   99.710786]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [   99.728668] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.740962] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.750630]  vol_id    0
> [   99.758537]  alignment 0
> [   99.766352]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.774804]  vol_type  3
> [   99.782409]  name_len  22
> [   99.789923]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [   99.808480] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.820028] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.828796]  vol_id    0
> [   99.835879]  alignment -1
> [   99.842859]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.850335]  vol_type  3
> [   99.856849]  name_len  22
> [   99.863395]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [   99.880157] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.891064] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.899440]  vol_id    0
> [   99.906182]  alignment 126977
> [   99.913456]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.920926]  vol_type  3
> [   99.927467]  name_len  22
> [   99.934058]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [   99.950732] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [   99.961655] Volume creation request dump:
> [   99.970057]  vol_id    0
> [   99.976826]  alignment 2049
> [   99.983931]  bytes     124690432
> [   99.991412]  vol_type  3
> [   99.997959]  name_len  22
> [  100.004551]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [  100.021254] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [  100.032201] Volume creation request dump:
> [  100.040649]  vol_id    0
> [  100.047441]  alignment 1
> [  100.054334]  bytes     -1
> [  100.061191]  vol_type  3
> [  100.067708]  name_len  22
> [  100.074250]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [  100.090929] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [  100.101834] Volume creation request dump:
> [  100.110223]  vol_id    0
> [  100.116969]  alignment 1
> [  100.123783]  bytes     0
> [  100.130505]  vol_type  3
> [  100.136980]  name_len  22
> [  100.143502]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [  100.160274] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: not enough PEBs, only 
> 982 available
> [  100.175970] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 0, 
> error -28
> [  100.189501] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: not enough PEBs, only 
> 982 available
> [  100.205998] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 0, 
> error -28
> [  100.222091] ubi0 error: verify_mkvol_req: bad volume creation request
> [  100.233529] Volume creation request dump:
> [  100.242409]  vol_id    0
> [  100.249771]  alignment 1
> [  100.256993]  bytes     126976
> [  100.264716]  vol_type  7
> [  100.272035]  name_len  22
> [  100.279316]  1st 16 characters of name: mkvol_bad:test_m
> [  100.416661] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: volume 0 already exists
> [  100.427776] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 0, 
> error -17
> [  100.441410] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: volume 
> "mkvol_bad:test_mkvol()" exists (ID 0)
> [  100.459295] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 1, 
> error -17
> [  100.711027] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: volume 
> "mkvol_bad:test_mkvol()" exists (ID 0)
> [  100.729733] ubi0 error: ubi_create_volume: cannot create volume 1, 
> error -17
> [  131.225291] ubi0 error: ubi_open_volume: cannot open device 0, 
> volume 128, error -22
> [  131.244295] ubi0 error: ubi_open_volume: cannot open device 0, 
> volume -1, error -22
> [  131.269510] ubi0 error: ubi_open_volume: cannot open device 0, 
> volume 128, error -22
> [  131.290092] ubi0 error: ubi_open_volume: cannot open device 0, 
> volume 0, error -19
> [  131.551660] ubi0 error: ubi_open_volume: cannot open device 0, 
> volume 0, error -19

With the recent fixes by Stefan to vf610_nfc driver the io_paral test 
passed, but the
above error's with the volume creation are still reproducible. Are these 
erros need to
be taken into consideration ?

Best regards,
Bhuvan
> Running mkvol_paral /dev/ubi0
> Running rsvol /dev/ubi0
> Running io_basic /dev/ubi0
> Running io_read /dev/ubi0
> Running io_update /dev/ubi0
> Running io_paral /dev/ubi0
> [io_paral] write_thread():222: written and read data are different
> Running volrefcnt /dev/ubi0
> SUCCESS
> root at colibri-vf:~/ubi-tests-bin#
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> //richard
>
> Best regards,
> Bhuvan
>




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