linux/drivers/mtd
Artem Bityutskiy 5fc01ab693 UBI: preserve corrupted PEBs
Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature
of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption.
The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy
potentially important data.

With this patch, during scanning, when UBI hits a PEB with corrupted VID
header, it checks whether this PEB contains only 0xFF data. If yes, it is
safe to erase this PEB and it is put to the 'erase' list. If not, this may
be important data and it is better to avoid erasing this PEB. Instead,
UBI puts it to the corr list and moves out of the pool of available PEB.
IOW, UBI preserves this PEB.

Such corrupted PEB lessen the amount of available PEBs. So the more of them
we accumulate, the less PEBs are available. The maximum amount of non-power
cut corrupted PEBs is 8.

This patch is a response to UBIFS problem where reporter
(Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>) observes that UBIFS index points
to an unmapped LEB. The theory is that corresponding PEB somehow got
corrupted and UBI wiped it. This patch (actually a series of patches)
tries to make sure such PEBs are preserved - this would make it is easier
to analyze the corruption.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2010-10-19 17:19:57 +03:00
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chips mtd: Remove obsolete <mtd/compatmac.h> include 2010-08-08 21:19:42 +01:00
devices mtd/m25p80: fix test for end of loop 2010-08-12 12:31:39 +01:00
lpddr mtd: change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex 2010-08-06 09:22:16 +01:00
maps of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers 2010-08-17 13:16:47 -06:00
nand fix OMAP2 MTD build failure 2010-09-29 13:17:56 -07:00
onenand mtd: OneNAND: Fix loop hang when DMA error at Samsung SoCs 2010-09-13 08:49:45 +01:00
tests mtd: tests: return -1 if verify failed 2010-08-02 09:06:20 +01:00
ubi UBI: preserve corrupted PEBs 2010-10-19 17:19:57 +03:00
afs.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
ar7part.c
cmdlinepart.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
ftl.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
inftlcore.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
inftlmount.c mtd: Remove obsolete <mtd/compatmac.h> include 2010-08-08 21:19:42 +01:00
Kconfig mtd: update description on sm_ftl 2010-08-06 09:21:40 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2010-05-10 14:32:46 +01:00
mtd_blkdevs.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-08-10 15:22:42 -07:00
mtdblock_ro.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
mtdblock.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
mtdchar.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2010-08-10 11:49:21 -07:00
mtdconcat.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
mtdcore.c mtd: Remove obsolete <mtd/compatmac.h> include 2010-08-08 21:19:42 +01:00
mtdcore.h mtd: Replace static array of devices with an idr structure 2010-02-25 11:55:14 +00:00
mtdoops.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
mtdpart.c mtd: Remove obsolete <mtd/compatmac.h> include 2010-08-08 21:19:42 +01:00
mtdsuper.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
nftlcore.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
nftlmount.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
ofpart.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
redboot.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
rfd_ftl.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00
sm_ftl.c bitops: rename for_each_bit() to for_each_set_bit(): mtd 2010-04-08 09:42:41 +01:00
sm_ftl.h mtd: Add new SmartMedia/xD FTL 2010-02-26 19:06:50 +00:00
ssfdc.c mtd: Update copyright notices 2010-08-08 20:58:20 +01:00