The current version on mtdoops erase first block of mtdoops partition at each
boot if there is no oops stored in flash. This can wear the flash.
When mtdoops start, find_next_position is called to find the next free entry in
the circular buffer. But if the flash is erased, find_next_position don't find
anything (maxcount == 0xffffffff) and start with the first entry after erasing it.
The scanning that is done in find_next_position already track free/used entries.
So if at the end of the scanning we don't find anything, we can start at the
first entry and erased the entry only if it is marked as used.
Most of this is implemented in mtdoops_inc_counter, so to avoid duplicating
code, if we don't find anything we set position to -1. mtdoops_inc_counter with
increment it, erase the entry if needed and start as before with nextpage = 0
and nextcount = 1).
Also during the scan phase, we use the MTDOOPS_KERNMSG_MAGIC to detect corruped
entries.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <matthieu.castet@parrot@com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Provide an iterator to receive the log buffer content, and convert all
kmsg_dump() users to it.
The structured data in the kmsg buffer now contains binary data, which
should no longer be copied verbatim to the kmsg_dump() users.
The iterator should provide reliable access to the buffer data, and also
supports proper log line-aware chunking of data while iterating.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside
/proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a
crash dump scenario.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead, use the new 'mtd_can_have_bb()', or just rely on 'mtd_block_markbad()'
return code, which will be -EOPNOTSUPP if bad blocks are not supported.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch introduces new 'mtd_can_have_bb()' helper function which checks
whether the flash can have bad eraseblocks. Then it changes all the
direct 'mtd->block_isbad' use cases with 'mtd_can_have_bb()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Instead of checking if 'mtd->panic_write' is defined, call 'mtd_panic_write()'
and check the error code - '-EOPNOTSUPP' will be returned if the function is
not defined.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch is part of a patch-set which changes the MTD interface
from 'mtd->func()' form to 'mtd_func()' form. We need this because
we want to add common code to to all drivers in the mtd core level,
which is impossible with the current interface when MTD clients
call driver functions like 'read()' or 'write()' directly.
At this point we just introduce a new inline wrapper function, but
later some of them are expected to gain more code. E.g., the input
parameters check should be moved to the wrappers rather than be
duplicated at many drivers.
This particular patch introduced the 'mtd_erase()' interface. The
following patches add all the other interfaces one by one.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
The array of unsigned long pointed by oops_page_used is allocated
by vmalloc which requires the size to be in bytes.
BITS_PER_LONG is equal to 32.
If we want to allocate memory for 32 pages with one bit per page then
32 / BITS_PER_LONG is equal to 1 byte that is 8 bits.
To fix it we need to multiply the result by sizeof(unsigned long) equal to 4.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (59 commits)
mtd: mtdpart: disallow reading OOB past the end of the partition
mtd: pxa3xx_nand: NULL dereference in pxa3xx_nand_probe
UBI: use mtd->writebufsize to set minimal I/O unit size
mtd: initialize writebufsize in the MTD object of a partition
mtd: onenand: add mtd->writebufsize initialization
mtd: nand: add mtd->writebufsize initialization
mtd: cfi: add writebufsize initialization
mtd: add writebufsize field to mtd_info struct
mtd: OneNAND: OMAP2/3: prevent regulator sleeping while OneNAND is in use
mtd: OneNAND: add enable / disable methods to onenand_chip
mtd: m25p80: Fix JEDEC ID for AT26DF321
mtd: txx9ndfmc: limit transfer bytes to 512 (ECC provides 6 bytes max)
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add support for Samsung K8D3x16UxC NOR chips
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add support for Samsung K8D6x16UxM NOR chips
mtd: nand: ams-delta: drop omap_read/write, use ioremap
mtd: m25p80: add debugging trace in sst_write
mtd: nand: ams-delta: select for built-in by default
mtd: OneNAND: lighten scary initial bad block messages
mtd: OneNAND: OMAP2/3: add support for command line partitioning
mtd: nand: rearrange ONFI revision checking, add ONFI 2.3
...
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/Kconfig as per DavidW.
This series aims to develop logging facility for enterprise use.
It is important to save kernel messages reliably on enterprise system
because they are helpful for diagnosing system.
This series add kmsg_dump() to the paths loosing kernel messages. The use
case is the following.
[Use case of reboot/poweroff/halt/emergency_restart]
My company has often experienced the followings in our support service.
- Customer's system suddenly reboots.
- Customers ask us to investigate the reason of the reboot.
We recognize the fact itself because boot messages remain in
/var/log/messages. However, we can't investigate the reason why the
system rebooted, because the last messages don't remain. And off course
we can't explain the reason.
We can solve above problem with this patch as follows.
Case1: reboot with command
- We can see "Restarting system with command:" or ""Restarting system.".
Case2: halt with command
- We can see "System halted.".
Case3: poweroff with command
- We can see " Power down.".
Case4: emergency_restart with sysrq.
- We can see "Sysrq:" outputted in __handle_sysrq().
Case5: emergency_restart with softdog.
- We can see "Initiating system reboot" in watchdog_fire().
So, we can distinguish the reason of reboot, poweroff, halt and emergency_restart.
If customer executed reboot command, you may think the customer should
know the fact. However, they often claim they don't execute the command
when they rebooted system by mistake.
No message remains on the current Linux kernel, so we can't show the proof
to the customer. This patch improves this situation.
This patch:
Alters mtdoops and ramoops to perform their actions only for
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC, KMSG_DUMP_OOPS and KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC because they would
like to log crashes only.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
flush_scheduled_work() is deprecated and scheduled to be removed.
Directly flush cxt->work_{erase|write} on removal instead.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Matthieu CASTET
David Woodhouse
Tejun Heo
Brian Norris
Kay Sievers
Artem Bityutskiy
WANG Cong
Roman Tereshonkov
Linus Torvalds
Seiji Aguchi
Ben Hutchings