This commit adds a new platform-data boolean property that enables use
of a flash-based bad block table. This can also be enabled by setting
the 'nand-on-flash-bbt' devicetree property.
If the flash BBT is not enabled, the driver falls back to use OOB
bad block markers only, as before. If the flash BBT is enabled the
kernel will keep track of bad blocks using a BBT, in addition to
the OOB markers.
As explained by Brian Norris the reasons for using a BBT are:
""
The primary reason would be that NAND datasheets specify it these days.
A better argument is that nobody guarantees that you can write a
bad block marker to a worn out block; you may just get program failures.
This has been acknowledged by several developers over the last several
years.
Additionally, you get a boot-time performance improvement if you only
have to read a few pages, instead of a page or two from every block on
the flash.
""
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Acked-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
All of these variables are initialized to zero and then
set to a different value below.
Zero-initializing is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
We should use
/*
* Blah Blah ...
* ...
*/
for multi-line comment blocks.
In addition, refactor some comments where it seems reasonable and
remove some comments where the code is clear enough such as:
/* clear interrupts */
clear_interrupts(denali);
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
"double iput() on failure exit in lustre, racy removal of spliced
dentries from ->s_anon in __d_materialise_dentry() plus a bunch of
assorted RCU pathwalk fixes"
The RCU pathwalk fixes end up fixing a couple of cases where we
incorrectly dropped out of RCU walking, due to incorrect initialization
and testing of the sequence locks in some corner cases. Since dropping
out of RCU walk mode forces the slow locked accesses, those corner cases
slowed down quite dramatically.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu()
don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu()
fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e
move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon)
[fix] lustre: d_make_root() does iput() on dentry allocation failure
The performance regression that Josef Bacik reported in the pathname
lookup (see commit 99d263d4c5 "vfs: fix bad hashing of dentries") made
me look at performance stability of the dcache code, just to verify that
the problem was actually fixed. That turned up a few other problems in
this area.
There are a few cases where we exit RCU lookup mode and go to the slow
serializing case when we shouldn't, Al has fixed those and they'll come
in with the next VFS pull.
But my performance verification also shows that link_path_walk() turns
out to have a very unfortunate 32-bit store of the length and hash of
the name we look up, followed by a 64-bit read of the combined hash_len
field. That screws up the processor store to load forwarding, causing
an unnecessary hickup in this critical routine.
It's caused by the ugly calling convention for the "hash_name()"
function, and easily fixed by just making hash_name() fill in the whole
'struct qstr' rather than passing it a pointer to just the hash value.
With that, the profile for this function looks much smoother.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"The most important patch is a new Light Weigth Syscall (LWS) for 8,
16, 32 and 64 bit atomic CAS operations which is required in order to
be able to implement the atomic gcc builtins on our platform.
Other than that, we wire up the seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create
syscalls, fixes a minor off-by-one bug and a wrong printk string"
* 'parisc-3.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Implement new LWS CAS supporting 64 bit operations.
parisc: Wire up seccomp, getrandom and memfd_create syscalls
parisc: dino: fix %d confusingly prefixed with 0x in format string
parisc: sys_hpux: NUL terminator is one past the end
in the former we simply check if dentry is still valid after picking
its ->d_inode; in the latter we fetch ->d_inode in the same places
where we fetch dentry and its ->d_seq, under the same checks.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
return the value instead, and have path_init() do the assignment. Broken by
"vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number",
which was Cc-stable with 2.6.38+ as destination. This one should go where
it went.
To avoid dummy value returned in case when root is already set (it would do
no harm, actually, since the only caller that doesn't ignore the return value
is guaranteed to have nd->root *not* set, but it's more obvious that way),
lift the check into callers. And do the same to set_root(), to keep them
in sync.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull ntb driver bugfixes from Jon Mason:
"NTB driver fixes for queue spread and buffer alignment. Also, update
to MAINTAINERS to reflect new e-mail address"
* tag 'ntb-3.17' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
ntb: Add alignment check to meet hardware requirement
MAINTAINERS: update NTB info
NTB: correct the spread of queues over mw's
Pull ARM irq chip fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another pile of ARM specific irq chip fixlets:
- off by one bugs in the crossbar driver
- missing annotations
- a bunch of "make it compile" updates
I pulled the lot today from Jason, but it has been in -next for at
least a week"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip: gic-v3: Declare rdist as __percpu pointer to __iomem pointer
irqchip: gic: Make gic_default_routable_irq_domain_ops static
irqchip: exynos-combiner: Fix compilation error on ARM64
irqchip: crossbar: Off by one bugs in init
irqchip: gic-v3: Tag all low level accessors __maybe_unused
irqchip: gic-v3: Only define gic_peek_irq() when building SMP
The NTB translate register must have the value to be BAR size aligned.
This alignment check make sure that the DMA memory allocated has the
proper alignment. Another requirement for NTB to function properly with
memory window BAR size greater or equal to 4M is to use the CMA feature
in 3.16 kernel with the appropriate CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT and
CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES set.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Update my contact info to my personal email address and add Dave Jiang.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
The detection of an uneven number of queues on the given memory windows
was not correct. The mw_num is zero based and the mod should be
division to spread them evenly over the mw's.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Pull futex and timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A oneliner bugfix for the jinxed futex code:
- Drop hash bucket lock in the error exit path. I really could slap
myself for intruducing that bug while fixing all the other horror
in that code three month ago ...
and the timer department is not too proud about the following fixes:
- Deal with a long standing rounding bug in the timeval to jiffies
conversion. It's a real issue and this fix fell through the cracks
for quite some time.
- Another round of alarmtimer fixes. Finally this code gets used
more widely and the subtle issues hidden for quite some time are
noticed and fixed. Nothing really exciting, just the itty bitty
details which bite the serious users here and there"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
futex: Unlock hb->lock in futex_wait_requeue_pi() error path
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback
alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers
alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime
jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
The current LWS cas only works correctly for 32bit. The new LWS allows
for CAS operations of variable size.
Signed-off-by: Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Ezequiel García
Boris BREZILLON
Masahiro Yamada
Brian Norris
Linus Torvalds
Al Viro
Thomas Gleixner
Dave Jiang
Jon Mason
Guy Martin